To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Your first time in the north
PAUL FARMER recommends the perplexing realism of a working-class writer whose books are about far more than they appear to be
Creating a mass-ownership New Standard Sailing Dinghy, or not?
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
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
The Encouragement of Others
Magnus Mills, Quoqs, £9.99
MAGNUS MILLS is on a roll. The Encouragement of Others is one of his finest books.
Mills is a working man, and he writes about workers. His first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, was about labourers who erect fences; The Scheme for Full Employment was about delivery vans; and The Maintenance of Headway was about bus drivers. These are all jobs Mills has done himself and the worlds he makes of them are enclosed and entire. But his books are about far more than they appear to be.
Or perhaps they aren’t.
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