LEO BOIX recommends a film that portrays how fascism feeds on ignorance, machismo and myth in isolated communities abandoned by the state

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