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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Market-driven ills of a sick society
Steve Andrew recommends Paul Verhaege’s study of how rising levels of mental sickness are induced by the neoliberal agenda
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
What About Me? The Struggle For Identity in a Market-based Society, by Paul Verhaeghe (Scribe, £12.99)
Very much in the tradition of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe’s earlier books undoubtedly owed more to the likes of Freud and Lacan than to the ideas of, say, Marx.
Yet years of working as a clinician eventually convinced him that the current tidal wave of mental illness, manifesting itself in spiralling levels of stress, anxiety and depression, owes more to contemporary changes in work and society than it does to fixed, individualistic and biological reasons.
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