The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a chronicle of Steve Bannon's quest to turn his controversial brand of extreme nationalism into a global movement
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
The Brink (15)
Directed by Alison Klayman
THE BRINK is a stomach-churning and at times hard to watch fly-on-the-wall documentary, with Steve Bannon coming across as a slippery Arthur Daley-style wheeler and dealer, minus the latter’s charm.
Wearing two shirts at all times, he peddles his influence and far-right wing ideology at home and abroad.
Director Alison Klayman was given unprecedented access to the White House chief strategist as she followed him from autumn 2017 to the US mid-term elections last year, travelling with him on his whistle-stop tour of Europe.
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