The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Armed with answers
JOHN GREEN recommends an informed analysis of the Kurdish fight for national liberation
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The PKK: Coming Down
from the Mountains
by Paul White
(Zed Books, £12.99)
THE KURDS — around 35-40 million people — are one of the largest national groups in the world without a country of their own.
Their language, culture and history goes back centuries and is distinct from those of the Middle -Eastern states in which the Kurdish people are based but their existence as a separate national group has been continually denied.
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