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‘History Lite’: Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy

22 August 2020 / 356

John Green reviews Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels. The above image is Hans Holbein’s 1530s portrait of Thomas Cromwell Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on the life of... Continue reading

John Green

Cultural Commentary

Rethinking the kind of culture we want

16 August 2020 / 389

Theresa Easton, Northern Organiser for Artists’ Union England, shows how the Covid crisis should be tackled by applying the principles of cultural democracy. The image above is... Continue reading

Theresa Easton

Education

In defence of GCSE poetry

16 August 2020 / 495

Razia Parveen criticises the government’s decision to make poetry optional for study at GCSE level. The image above is of John Agard The Tory government has recently... Continue reading

Razia Parveen

Fiction

A lesser evil

16 August 2020 / 439

13th October 2040 Dear Richard, I know it must be weird and more than slightly disturbing to receive a ‘letter from beyond the grave’, but I trust... Continue reading

Chris Norris

TV, internet and other media

Broadcasting and Beyond: proposals for progressive media

4 August 2020 / 425

Rod Stoneman outlines proposals for developing new, more radical and progressive media You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from... Continue reading

Rod Stoneman

Fiction

Giovanni Boccaccio, writing at a time of plague

4 August 2020 / 374

Jenny Farrell gives the historical background to Boccaccio’s work The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Music

Singing new forms of escape: Paul Robeson’s afterlife in a U.S. prison

3 August 2020 / 422

Shana L. Redmond writes about Paul Robeson’s afterlife in a U.S. Prison “I have begun to undertake the task of trying to establish a Paul Robeson month here... Continue reading

Shana Redmond

Poetry

What if there was no divide?

2 August 2020 / 333

What if there was no divide? by Jane Burn What if life, for so many of us wasn’t a chasm? You only have a basic understanding. It’s... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Fiction

Hollywood corruption in the McCarthy period: Left of Eden

2 August 2020 / 364

Paul Simon reviews Dennis Broe’s new novel Author Dennis Broe is an international expert on film noir and an acclaimed socialist writer, as his dialectical and highly... Continue reading

Paul Simon

Poetry

The cry of the poor from inner-city Dublin: Sacred Symphony

29 July 2020 / 352

Sacred Symphony is a new collection of poems on life in inner-city Dublin, by Karl Parkinson, with photographs by Peter O’Doherty. It includes All the Swings are Gone and is... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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