MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
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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
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, following a small boat incident in the Channel
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
Small Boat
Vincent Delecroix, Hope Road, £12.99
Translated from the French by Helen Stevenson
SMALL BOAT is one of the most thought-provoking books that I’ve read about the contemporary challenges of migration.
The focus is on those who risk their lives crossing the Channel in inflatable dinghies in the hope of safety on the other side, but the novel’s implications are far wider, raising broader questions about the nature of evil and the nature of moral responsibility, both individually and collectively: unsettling questions about complicity in the sufferings of migrants.
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