MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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IAN SINCLAIR previews some of the hard-edged entries to the Yorkshire city’s annual Doc/Fest, which begins this weekend
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
DIRECTED by Johanna Hamilton, 1971 is an accomplished US feature-length documentary about the break-in that happened at the FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971.
Strongly opposed to their nation’s ongoing destruction of Vietnam a small group of activists decided to move from non-violent protest to non-violent disruption.
Calling themselves The Citizen’s Commission To Investigate The FBI, they stole documents that showed J Edgar Hoover’s political police force was involved in a decades-long campaign of spying and subversion against the anti-war movement, black groups, the women’s movement and political radicals.
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