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Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Gordon Parsons' best books of the year
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
THE UNIQUE horror of WW2 still hangs like a pall over the contemporary world and East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity — a remarkable combination of personal memoir, detective thriller and historical research — is another grim reminder of it.
International human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands was inspired to embark on this exhaustive quest by the total silence of his Jewish grandfather on his life before the war.
He came from Lemburg, now Lviv in Ukraine, one of those places that became the billiard ball of 20th century warfare. His grandson’s curiosity led to the discovery that this was also the home of two remarkable legal minds who were to shape modern international law.
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