DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Party-pooping pointer to the future
A new book shows how Bernie Sanders's challenge to the Democratic Party machine during the 2016 US election presaged a ground-breaking shift in progressive politics, says JOHN HAYLETT
U. Senator Bernie Sanders
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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
Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Left Movement
by Heather Gautney
(Verso, £6.99)
SELF-CAPTIONED democratic socialist Bernie Sanders came within a whisker of defeating Wall Street’s candidate Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination.
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