SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
The Treatment by Michael Nath
No-holds-barred assault on the corruption at the core of British society
BEAUTIFULLY VULGAR: Michael Nath
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
IT’S a sure sign that we live in corrupt times that an author as accomplished as Michael Nath is not better known.
Fittingly, his third novel The Treatment focuses on the coruscating influence of corruption on communities, individuals and justice, both of the legal and natural varieties.
Unlike his magnificent British Story — expansive both in geography and time frame — his latest is more compact. Spanning two decades, its settings are mainly south-east London and various criminal holiday resorts in Spain.
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