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GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
Alpha City: How London was captured by the super-rich
by Rowland Atkinson
(Verso, £13.59)
THIS book, essential reading before Covid-19, is even more so now.
In it, Rowland Atkinson vividly describes how the super-rich have distorted the socioeconomic and physical landscape of London, but the most important argument goes beyond the fate of one city.
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