DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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ANGUS REID takes issue with Adam Curtis's documentary series Can’t Get you out of my Head
Can’t Get you out of my Head
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STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
AMUSING, disturbing and immersive, Adam Curtis’s eight-hour documentary epic Can’t Get you out of my Head, currently on BBC iPlayer, is a tour de force.
A magpie in the archive, stealing what he can to feather his nest, Curtis tops and tails this extravagant survey of the last 100 years with a quotation from US anthropologist David Graeber, who died last September.
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