SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
A frontline view of the significant political battles of the 1920s
(L to R) Harry Pollitt, Vladimir Lenin and Ernest Bevin
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
Red-Button Men: Red-Button Years: Volume 3
by Ken Fuller
Independently published, £12.99
LIKE its predecessor novels, the last of Ken Fuller’s Red-Button trilogy really shouldn’t work as well as it does.
Once again, here is a novel dominated by lengthy and detailed accounts of political leftist debates and precise reconstructions of militant trade union machinations in the face of both employer and in-house opposition from both right-wing and ultra-leftist factions alike.
Yet, as before, Fuller has produced a breathtakingly fascinating novel that entertains and informs the reader in equal measure.
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