CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
PROTEST music is dead, some said this year. They wouldn’t have, if they’d checked out Anohni’s intense Hopelessness (Rough Trade).
Formerly working as Antony from Antony and the Johnsons, the British musician’s bold and brash electro album rails against Obama’s drone wars, Guantanamo Bay, climate change, dangerous masculinity and the death penalty.
Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers released the equally outraged American Band (ATO Records), their angry State of the Union address.
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