LEO BOIX recommends a film that portrays how fascism feeds on ignorance, machismo and myth in isolated communities abandoned by the state
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Chris Searle speaks to Syrian/French flautist NAISSAM JALAL
With thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books being sold, LAURA BEERS hears an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel‑writing machines’
ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
THE REMNANTS of the human race live on orbiting space ships in Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne (Titan, £7.99), waiting for the ruined planet to be inhabitable again.
For some of those in the poorer and less sustainable ships, the wait proves too long. This is a future in which to be working class is to risk your dilapidated refuge burning up during involuntary re-entry.
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