GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world

ELIZABETH SHORT recommends a bracing study of energy intensive AI and the race of such technology towards war profits

RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery

HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come

MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights

JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media

‘Chance encounters are what keep us going,’ says novelist Haruki Murakami. In Amy, a chance encounter gives fresh perspective to memories of angst, hedonism and a charismatic teenage rebel.

The Star's critics MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd, The Uninvited, The Surfer, and Motel Destino

No excuses can hide the criminal actions of a Nazi fellow-traveller in this admirably objective documentary, suggests MARTIN HALL

DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the return of Azuka Oforka’s stunning drama about slave plantation politics

PAUL DONOVAN relishes a fascinating exploration of the leading lights of the Labour right in the 1970s