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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
Round-up 2016: Non-fiction with Gwyn Griffiths
Star critics run through what’s impressed them this year
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
NOAM CHOMSKY’S Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books) reveals more about how the US manipulates world opinion, its sordid history of involvement with Cuba and its support for Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
I liked the chapter on Iran, branded by the US as the world’s “leading exporter of terrorism.” A grim prize indeed but, according to leading Western polling agencies, that prize would be won by a mile by the US.
Chomsky poses another question: “What principles and values rule the world?” Given that the book was published some months before the election of Trump, that makes his query all the more interesting — and frightening.
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FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
STEVE ANDREW is intrigued by a timely and well-researched book that demonstrates the conflicted history of the central Asian country
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