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'There's nothing broken that we cannot fix'
Times may be hard but, as EFA SUPERTRAMP tells Susan Darlington, her new album is all about seeking out the political positives
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ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
EFA SUPERTRAMP is perhaps best known to many as half of electronic-punk outfit Killdren, who found themselves in the middle of a media storm for their song Kill Tory Scum (Before They Kill You).
The track, which saw the duo dropped from last year’s Glastonbury lineup, proved to the London-based
musician that music still has the power to shock. But it came as a surprise, she says, “because you think everything’s been done.”
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