PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK
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Rich picking for the inquisitive
GORDON PARSONS believes the Traverse Festival offers a treasure trove for the casual theatre-goer
The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez
PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary
The Traverse provides a safe bet for the wandering and wondering Festival punter.
In David Ireland’s Ulster American, an initial meeting between an ambitious British theatre director and Jay, a brash US Oscar-winning star of Irish Catholic descent, here to appear in his new play, seems to signal a fairly standard comedy.
When the female Northern Irish playwright Ruth arrives, things take on a cutting edge as religion, culture, politics and nationalities clash.
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GORDON PARSONS meditates on the appetite of contemporary audiences for the obscene cruelty of Shakespeare’s Roman nightmare
SIMON PARSONS applauds a tense and thoughtful production that regularly challenges our political engagement and prejudices
ROSIE NELSON applauds a graphic novel that asks what does it mean to exist as a fat person in a fatphobic society?