MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Best of 2019: Books
MARJORIE MAYO picks her reads of the year
PIC CAP TOTALLY ENGAGING: Milkman author Anna Burns Pic: EPA
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
DANIEL SONABEND’S We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and their Forgotten Battle for Post-War Britain (Verso) tells the stories of the Jewish ex-servicemen and women who came back from the second world war only to find that fascist gangs were still harassing Jewish communities back home in Britain.
The book recounts the heroic struggles of these Jewish veterans who challenged the fascists, often at considerable risk to themselves, given the level of violence that the gangs employed.
I was shocked to realise how little I had known about the continuance of far-right violence and the influence of Oswald Mosley in the post-war period and the threads of fascism, anti-semitism and racism that run through our history.
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