MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes the valiant defiance of two gay Scottish painters whose example resists both collectors’ taste and historical fiction
Little time left
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in London last year
Essays on contemporary Latin American feminism, a poetry debut by a queer Texan of Mexican heritage, and a lush volume of tango and milonga drawings
JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
The bard pays homage to his two muses: his wife and his football club
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by an incoherent show that fails to question stereotypical assumptions about the Soviet Union
WILL STONE, JAMES WALSH and MARIA DUARTE review Souleymane’s Story, Sunlight, Good Fortune, and After The Hunt
The Climate Majority Project: Setting the stage for a mainstream, urgent climate movement
Co-edited by Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh and Rosie Bell
London Publishing Partnership, £12
“WE haven’t yet exceeded the bounds of viable human civilisation, but we’re getting close,” top climate scientist Professor Michael Mann warned last year. “If we keep going [with carbon emissions], then all bets are off.”
This is why, in 2021, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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