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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Amy Key - Gillingham
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
Gillingham
Amy Key
Here the sands and me were sinking.
The house though upright, wore its mourning.
Nothing to lean into save the marcasite gutter
people dumped polished wood furniture into.
Internal walls came down. My father had a room
of his own, red, with a piano and Lenin,
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The Bard contributes to the campaign of Count Binface, and applauds Burnham’s plans for vocational training
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event