The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Edifying Korea
MICHAL BONCZA hopes a new book showcasing contemporary architecture of North Korea will help allay some of the more persistent negative perceptions of the country
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Inside North Korea
by Oliver Wainwright
(Taschen £40)
In uncultured or indolent observers North Korea, the West’s favourite bogeyman, induces a negative, Pavlovian knee-jerk response entirely US-manufactured and based on the teachings of Joseph Goebbels.
Just so we are clear, during the 1950-53 bombing campaign of Korea the US air force used high explosive, incendiary and napalm bombs to destroy an estimated 85 per cent of practically all the country's cities and towns — Pyongyang was flattened — civilian deaths totalled one million.
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