SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
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Not all doom and gloom in climate stakes
An all encompassing view of the climate crisis offers the tools for our survival, writes SYLVIA HIKINS
PIONEER: Eunice Newton Foote
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
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
Our Biggest Experiment. A History of the Climate Crisis
by Alice Bell
Bloomsbury Sigma £10.99
ALICE BELL’S book, Our Biggest Experiment. A History of the Climate Crisis, begins with an amazing revelation. It was as early as 1856 when the world was first warned that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures soaring.
The person behind this revelation was Eunice Newton Foote, scientist, inventor, women’s rights campaigner from New York, but because she was female, no-one paid much attention.
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ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends two collections of short stories that use a single location to connect the narratives, and explore the limits of our ability to understand the world
LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year
