CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Essential reading on havoc of ‘war on terror’
Andrew Murray reviews Blood Year by David Kilcullen and Chaos and Caliphate by Patrick Cockburn
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
• Blood Year, David Kilcullen (Hurst Publishers, £9.99)
• Chaos and Caliphate, Patrick Cockburn (OR Books, £18)
THIS is, as Patrick Cockburn notes, an “age of chaos and war” in the Middle East.
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