CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Anarchy unmasked, from Shelley to Johnson
In these turbulent times, the political gulf between the great radical poet and our disgraceful Prime Minister couldn't be more glaring
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
ONCE again, it almost seems a dereliction of duty to restrict this column to my cultural activities, given the momentous events taking place in Britain right now.
But I am fully aware they are covered elsewhere in the Star and if you want to read my singular take on events you can do so in my regular blog at facebook.com/attilathestockbroker.
However, as someone who opposed the far right in the 1980s and has been on the receiving end of fascist violence, I have to say this. The most poisonous thing about Johnson’s disgusting, hate-filled “surrender and betrayal” rhetoric is that he doesn’t actually believe it himself.
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