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ANGUS REID recommends an exhilarating essay that describes the evolution of (same) sexuality in Western democracies
Gay rights demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London in July 1972
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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
Your Place or Mine?
by Gilles Dauve
PM Press, £16.99
LIKE a homo-Marxist Montaigne (the great French essayist of the Enlightenment) Gilles Dauve opens his seminal account of “the modern invention of homosexuality”, Your Place or Mine, with two questions:
“How did homosexuality… a human practice usually repressed or ignored… become socially visible and accepted towards the end of the twentieth century? And how did it come to define an identity?”
At the conclusion of what he calls a “fragmented historical narrative” he returns to his questions to give the reader a sense of the overarching shape of the history that has led to the present day.
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