JOHN GREEN is dissatisfied with a book that fails to address the promotion of ignorance as a ruling-class strategy to maintain control
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It is painful that Donald Trump used David Bowie’s music during his campaign when the singer’s work was directly critical of his politics, judges PETER KENWORTHY
CHRIS MOSS is gripped by the account of a city that is point of embarkation for conquest and adventure, and arrival stage for dreamers and despots
WILL PODMORE recommends an analysis of the utopian thinking that underlies the rise of bourgeois economics
LEO BOIX reviews Cuban poet Carlos Pintado; Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas; Mexican American writer and critic Rigoberto Gonzalez; and Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos
ANGUS REID deconstructs a popular contemporary novel aimed at a ‘queer’ young adult readership
JOHN GREEN takes issue with a mainstream novel designed to denigrate the GDR
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SHOULD we be afraid of Americans, as Bowie sang in the 1990s, or expect anarchy in the USA, to paraphrase the Sex Pistols? Donald Trump is back for a second term, and it could become a presidency of dissonance, a kind of vaudeville requiem for a lot of us.
In the next four years he and his donor and Department of Government Efficiency head, Elon Musk, could after all end up disrupting everything from the American economy and democracy, to climate change, Canada, Panama and Greenland, Britain and Germany, the football club Liverpool FC, and the music business.
Donald Trump certainly likes a good tune. His 2024 election campaign was steeped in music with more or less positive messages – from gay anthem YMCA to Beyonce’s Freedom, even though many of these musicians have been less than enthusiastic about Trump using their songs, including David Bowie’s son. Trump has used Bowie’s Heroes, Rebel Rebel and Starman.
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