Before Greek myths reached the multiplex, they were weapons of political satire. CALLUM SMITH explores the evidence

Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq

ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms

DAVID McKINSTRY welcomes the republication of a meticulous portrait of Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic FC

HENRY BELL salutes a fine portrait of a revolutionary who remains a deeply significant and provocative figure

JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl

JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it

Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation

Chris Searle speaks to jazz vocalist NORMA WINSTONE

by Ayo Ayoola-Amale

JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world