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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Assault on a continent exposed
A new Communist Party pamphlet looks into the ongoing pillage carried out by the West in Africa, says Kenny Coyle
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
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
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
The New Scramble for Africa (CPB, £2) Available from the CPB.
With the musical monstrosity that is Band Aid 30 in the charts, the image of Africa as a helpless victim saved only by the kindly condescension of the West is back again.
Different words, same old tune.
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JOE GILL appreciates a lucid demonstration of how capital today is an outgrowth of the colonial economy