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Rembrandt the outsider

26 June 2019 / 366

Dennis Broe reviews the recent Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt the outsider? At first glance nothing could be further from the truth. Rembrandt is being... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Theatre

It’s the revolution or the doors: a review of an early Brecht play

25 June 2019 / 432

Anthony Squiers reviews Trommeln in der Nacht at the Münchner Kammerspiele, which ‘rescues the Tentative Brecht’ On September 29, 1922 the Münchner Kammerspiele premiered Trommeln in der... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Fiction

Solidarity against everyday exploitation: Stephen King’s IT

25 June 2019 / 478

Tony McKenna looks back at Stephen King’s IT Some years ago, a study was carried out into the fears of young children in the night. Just before the... Continue reading

Tony McKenna

Poetry

£77 per hour

24 June 2019 / 353

£77 per hour by Becky Bone nine thousand two hundred and fifty9250pounds per year (1 year = 20 weeks) four hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty... Continue reading

Becky Bone

Poetry

Christ is a communist and God is a miner: ‘The Sair Road’ by William Hershaw

31 May 2019 / 512

Jim Aitken reviews The Sair Road, by Willie Hershaw. The header image and all others in this review are by Les McConnell, the illustrator Far from creating... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Fiction

Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience

31 May 2019 / 475

Nicholas Tucker asks why authors of children’s stories about boarding schools chose to concentrate on escapist fantasy, rather than telling the truth Asked by a magazine in... Continue reading

Nicholas Tucker

Visual Arts

Walter Wolfgang

31 May 2019 / 368

Walter Jakob Wolfgang, 23 June 1923 to 28 May 2019, was a German-born British socialist and peace activist. He was Vice-President and Vice Chair of the Campaign for... Continue reading

Anon

Films

Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim

23 May 2019 / 376

Rita di Santo reviews Young Ahmed, which won the Best Director prize at Cannes recently Like Britain’s Ken Loach, Belgium’s most renowned filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Films

Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You: the gig economy as agony, not freedom

21 May 2019 / 347

From Cannes, Dennis Broe reviews Ken Loach’s latest film, about the slow breakdown of a family exposed to the ‘freedom’ of the gig economy The first scene... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Visual Arts

Against the day

19 May 2019 / 386

Narbi Price introduces his new exhibition of paintings, set in Ashington and inspired by the Pitmen Painters. Image above: Untitled Wall Painting (Kwik Fit), acrylic on board, 50x70cm... Continue reading

Narbi Price

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