DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Zero Units and extrajudicial executions
Kill or Capture: Inside the CIA’s Secret Afghan Army
Joe Glenton (left) interviewing the families of those killed by the Zero Units
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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
WITH the ongoing war in Afghanistan seemingly of little interest to much of the British media, journalist Joe Glenton’s new documentary is very welcome.
Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country.
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