ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
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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
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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?
DOCUMENTING the rapidly changing look and feel of an increasingly privatised and enclosed contemporary London, Savage Messiah was a pre-digital cut-and-paste fanzine of monochrome photographs, text and illustration.
Part-graphic novel, part-artwork, it described life through the eyes of a young woman in the capital during the early 1990s.
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