CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Architect PETER BARBER talks to Michal Boncza about his solution to Londons housing crisis the construction of a new 100-mile city circling its periphery
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
IMAGINE if you can a street-based city 100 miles long, 200 metres wide and four storeys high wrapped around London.
With small-scale factories, schools, houses and shops laid out in terraces along intimately scaled streets and around squares it gives an intense edge to the capital, served by a high-speed orbital monorail. It’s a confident, purposeful boundary fronting a revitalised, productive countryside.
Imagine too a city growing inwards, spreading like wildfire through wasteful, anti-social, car-choked suburbia. Eastwards from Richmond, west across the marshes, up from Eltham, across the hills of Greenwich and the empty green swards and golf courses of Enfield.
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