ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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A Drive-by Shoot-out With Western Philosophy
ALEX HALL recommends a brisk overview of Western thought aimed at working and younger readers with an interest in changing the world
Soren Kierkegaard, Jean Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger
[Niels Christian Kierkegaard/Royal Library of Denmark/Public domain; Stephane Lemarchand/Public domain; aeneastudio/Public domain]
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Marxism and Philosophy in the 21st Century
C Ritchie, Manifesto Press, £10
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RICHARD SHILLCOCK examines an enjoyable, but philosophically conventional book, and urges Marxists to employ their capacity to embrace the totality in any explanation
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son
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