GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
What do we want to be?
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds a disturbing book that demonstrates how failing immigration policy has undermined liberal democracy itself
In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
Picador, £22
IF Donald Trump’s latest bile about immigrants, spat out at the Republican National Convention, was wearily predictable, that does not makes it any less alarming.
His claim that there was “a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction” across the US confirms his instinct that the signature issue of his 2016 election can be revived as a key attack line in 2024.
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