Latest editorial
GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Dispatches from teaching front line
CONRAD LANDIN recommends a journalist’s account of reporting on the ‘war’ between government and educators for three decades
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
The Thirty Years War: My Life Reporting on Education, by Richard Garner (John Catt, £13)
BRITAIN’S education system is perhaps the thing our rulers are least prepared to leave to the experts.
This is, of course, nothing new. The genesis of mass schooling did not take place in a political vacuum and nor did the 1944 Education Act, nor still the introduction of comprehensives.
Similar stories
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
A teaching delegation to Cuba offered IAN DUCKETT a powerful glimpse into a schooling system defined by care, creativity and the legacy of the island’s remarkable 1961 literacy campaign
MARTIN HALL welcomes a study of Britain’s relationship with the EU that sheds light on the way euroscepticism moved from the margins to the centre