Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Crime fiction round-up
Reviews of The Oxford Brotherhood by Guillermo Martinez, Repentance by Eloisa Diaz, Powder Smoke by Andrew Martin and Shadow of a Doubt by Michelle Davies
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
IN THE OXFORD BROTHERHOOD by Guillermo Martinez (Little Brown, £16.99) “G,” an Argentinian mathematics student in Oxford in 1994, is drawn into a deadly mystery through his mentor’s involvement in an academic society of Lewis Carroll admirers.
A young researcher claims to have made an astonishing discovery concerning one of the great mysteries of Carroll’s life. It’s the question which has overshadowed study of the author of the Alice books since the 1950s — the nature of his relationship with little girls, which to modern sensibilities is highly troubling.
When the researcher almost dies in a suspicious accident, G must uncover the truth of puzzles old and new to prevent further bloodshed.
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