GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
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GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
STEVEN ANDREW is fascinated by an account of the many baseless folk tales that evolved to explain the existence of pre-historic stone circles
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
TRUTH OF THE DIVINE by Lindsay Ellis (Titan, £17.99) continues the story of first contact started in last year’s Axiom’s End.
The revelation that a small group of extraterrestrial refugees is living on Earth is triggering a realignment of US politics, as xenophobic leaders cash in on the widespread nervousness created by continuing government secrecy.
A new division in that most divided of nations soon arises, over whether people from another planet are, in fact, people in a legal and philosophical sense. Cunning right-wingers argue for a compromise in which the aliens will be granted partial personhood. That this semi-citizen category might in the future be used against groups of native humans is not lost either on policy-makers or their opponents.
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