Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
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Writer of speculative fiction GRAHAM JOYCE died last year and his legacy, says Andy Hedgecock, combines magical elements with a commitment to developing a new
and deeper understanding of human experience and potential
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
WHEN the Leicester-based writer Graham Joyce died of cancer last September, we lost a great writer and committed, lifelong socialist.
Joyce, who grew up in a Midlands mining community, quit his job as a youth worker in the dark days of Thatcherism and set off for Greece to try to forge a career as a writer.
He went on to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel six times, the O Henry Award for short fiction and the World Fantasy Award. Joyce hated the Tories as a young man and his position never shifted. Last year, in spite of being terminally ill, he drew up an online petition calling for the sacking of Michael Gove as education secretary which gathered nearly 150,000 signatures.
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GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes an exuberant blend of emotion and analysis that captures the politics and contrarian nature of the French composer