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MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Slumboy from the Golden City by Paul Joseph
An activist's autobiography is an excellent everyman’s account of the anti-apartheid struggle
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
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
PAUL JOSEPH’S recollections stand for all those who sacrificed so much and yet, at least according to the mainstream media, are utterly overshadowed into insignificance by the names of a just a few of their leaders.
The latter would have been nothing without the hundreds of thousands of Paul Josephs coalescing into an ultimately impregnable progressive force for change.
Born into a Keralese family, he grew up in the nondescript but rigidly divided town of Ferreirastown and later the larger settlement of Fordsburg and his childhood accounts make for fascinating and heartbreaking reading.
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