BOOKS BOOKS The veterans of Spain ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders
Photography Arts | Friday 23rd Dec 2022 Photography Lessons of individual development rather than collective or political consciousness
Edinburgh International Book Festival round up Arts | Friday 02nd Sep 2022 Edinburgh International Book Festival round up An exclusively marketing event disappoints with vacuity of ‘debates’
Book Review Friday 01st Apr 2022 Book Review Thrilling confessional candour about the time of the Panthers ANGUS REID highly recommends a memoir of high literary merit written in concise, finely crafted and fast-moving prose
Book Review Monday 06th Dec 2021 Book Review An opportunistic misinterpretation of Brecht’s intentions ANGUS REID challenges a narrative that has no interest in reality or politics and uses Brecht to side with the cultural right wing, the partisans of Greek ethnic superiority
Book Review Monday 29th Nov 2021 Book Review Personal snapshots that are windows onto a peoples’ ongoing history Highly responsible and necessary work that opens up a goldmine, writes ANGUS REID
Thursday 02nd Dec 2021 2021 round-up with Angus Reid On the new biography of Africa’s murdered revolutionary, working-class Scots of distinction and memorable theatre productions
Theatre Review Thursday 04th Nov 2021 Theatre Review Devastating theatre offers a totalised view of humanity ANGUS REID recommends a production that explores the urgent need to be reacquainted with the dangers of repression and the difficult path to selfhood
Opinion Sunday 26th Sep 2021 Opinion West German art - ‘Nazis welcome here?’ Hitler’s designated ‘divinely gifted’ artists, who basked in Nazi glory and favour, found welcome continuity after 1945 as the new art ubermenschen of the anti-communist Federal Republic, writes ANGUS REID
Opinon Thursday 23rd Sep 2021 Opinon ‘Taking arms against a sea of troubles’ ANGUS REID looks at two productions with equally noble aims and at how one succeeds admirably where the other fails utterly
Interview Sunday 12th Sep 2021 Interview ‘Something that makes people better is revolutionary’ JO CLIFFORD talks to Angus Reid about politics, life and most of all theatre of which she is a controversial and acclaimed practitioner
Music/Dance Monday 30th Aug 2021 Music/Dance Dicing with death and resurrection A demanding work that stares wide-eyed at the material realities of the finite human body
Exhibition Review Tuesday 24th Aug 2021 Exhibition Review A woman for all seasons A wondrous celebration of Joan Eardley - the great painter who transformed the languages of the past, and who dared incoherence to advance the language of the present, writes ANGUS REID