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Passionate case for environment action
Paul Donovan reviews Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
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To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth (Faber and Faber, £14.99)
THIS fascinating book raises some fundamental questions about our relationship with the environment.
Made up of a series of articles that Paul Kingsnorth wrote in publications between 2009 and 2016, the result is an account of a man plotting his own path through life, while trying to make sense of the world in which he lives.
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