PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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MAT COWARD recommends a thriller set against Detroit's tragic decline
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
One of Alex McKnight's last cases, when he was a Detroit cop half his lifetime ago, ended with the imprisonment of a teenage black boy for the murder of a young white woman in a city so inured to violence that this was the only combination likely to make the evening news.
Shortly after the arrest, McKnight was invalided out of the force and never knew in detail how the conviction was achieved.
When he gets a courtesy call from the police, at the start of Let It Burn by Steve Hamilton, (Orion, £18.99), warning him that the killer has served his time and will shortly be released, Alex's doubts begin to mount.
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