CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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‘It's impossible to understand the world around us without understanding how we got here’
Ahead of his tour next month, radical US songwriter DAVID ROVICS talks music and politics with Reuben Bard-Rosenberg
David Rovics
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
You've called your new show the Musical History tour and it will focus on stories from the past. How can music shape our historical understanding and why is it important?
The powers-that-be in the US would have us believe that history is shaped mainly by great leaders or technological innovation.
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