SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Little time left
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
PAUL FOLEY recommends an extraordinary double bill that packs a punch and leaves you reeling
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
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SIMON DUFF reviews a new composition by German composer and pianist Florian Weber that blurs the line between where improvisation ends and composition begins
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The Climate Majority Project: Setting the stage for a mainstream, urgent climate movement
Co-edited by Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh and Rosie Bell
London Publishing Partnership, £12
“WE haven’t yet exceeded the bounds of viable human civilisation, but we’re getting close,” top climate scientist Professor Michael Mann warned last year. “If we keep going [with carbon emissions], then all bets are off.”
This is why, in 2021, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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