JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Distant Signs by Anne Richter
Novel explores the mindset of the younger generation in the GDR
MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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ANNE RICHTER, German author of this new novel on the GDR, was 16 when the Berlin Wall came down and her story is that of three generations and two families as the narrative unfolds from 1965 to 1992.
It begins as Margret confronts her professor father Friedrich in a lecture. She represents a new generation challenging their parents and the realities of the East German state, in which Friedrich has achieved a privileged position in society. His wife does not work and they have a housekeeper and a gardener.
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The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London