SIMON DUFF recommends a recording of Arvo Part that takes the listener on a pilgrimage through seemingly distant times and events of the Bible
Rosen on genocide
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an explanation of genocide by the persecuted author that is both uplifting and important
[Illustration by Benjamin Philips]
JENNY FARRELL relishes an intimate memoir about growing up in the household of the great Irish communist and playwright Sean O’Casey
SIAN LEWIS relishes a comprehensive account of high rise social housing in Britain by prize-winning social and political historian Holly Smith
SIMON PARSONS feels a little overwhelmed by the joke count of an ebullient production that manages to convey Stoker’s Dracula without corpsing
SYLVIA HIKINS enjoys a varied Scouse alternative to traditional pantomimes
Rereleases from The Pentangle, The Charlie Daniels Band, and Cousins and Willoughby
One Day
Michael Rosen & Benjamin Phillips, Walker Studio, £12.99
ARTISTS brave enough to criticise Israel’s catastrophic treatment of the Palestinian people risk a double whammy. Not only do the inevitable allegations of anti-semitism trigger calls for a boycott, but attention shifts from the cultural product to the manufactured scandal.
Consider the cases of musician Roger Waters, film-maker Ken Loach and writer-actor Miriam Margolyes. Then, of course, there’s the children’s writer and poet Michael Rosen.
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KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
ANDREW HEDGECOCK relishes visual storytelling with no respect for genres, movements or styles
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends two collections of short stories that use a single location to connect the narratives, and explore the limits of our ability to understand the world