LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
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KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
DESPITE the fact that sales are on the decline, 2018 should still be a great year for comics because the quality of story being produced is better than ever.
Over the next 12 months, I'll be picking up on the sublime all-new Guardians of the Galaxy. The success this team has had on the big screen translates to the page and the Marvel writers never fail to come up with new twists and character development to keep the reader entertained.
As things currently stand in the series, Drax the Destroyer is now a pacifist, Groot is still a baby and unable to grow, while Rocket Racoon, Gamora and Peter Quill continue to annoy each other in the way that only loving family members can do.
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