SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
Bitter old croc
JOHN GREEN suggests you pass on a novelette that recycles the communist past without hope or tangible history
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion monument, in Ottawa, remembering Canadian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, was unveiled on October 20 2001 and was selected through a competition won by Oryst Sawchuk
Pic: Gabriel/CC
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
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
The Alligator’s Trap
By Antonio Soler (trans Kathryn Phillips-Miles & Simon Deefholts), Clapton Press, £12.99
THIS enigmatic and elliptical novelette left this reader very dissatisfied. A Spanish refugee, living out his twilight years in Canada delivers a bitter, circular soliloquy, taking us from the present to the past and back again on a slippery, uncertain path.
The narrator is a political refugee from Spain, who is working as a hotel receptionist in Toronto, Canada.
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