Society & Culture > Media, arts & sport
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Comedy and tragedy
03 Feb 2011
Jim Moody reviews two RSC productions at the Roundhouse
Conversations with the sat-nav
27 Jan 2011
Mike Belbin reviews Jonathan Coe 'The terrible privacy of Maxwell Sim' Viking, 2010, pp344, £18.99 hardback (paperback £12.99)
More glasnost, less perestroika
13 Jan 2011
Maciej Zurowski interviews Circles Robinson of 'Havana Times', a web magazine that features critical writing from Cuba
Paradox of an anti-Stalinist
06 Jan 2011
Gareth Evans reviews Philip Bounds's 'Orwell and Marxism: the political and cultural thinking of George Orwell' IB Tauris Publications, 2009, pp253, £46
Jailbirds, extremists, and white power rock
06 Jan 2011
Maciej Zurowski argues that state bans only serve the ruling class. There must be freedom ... even for bad music and offensive lyrics
Old thinking and new bottles
06 Jan 2011
Paul Greenaway asks what the liberal media see in Laurie Penny and explains why Alex Callinicos is talking sense
The Pagan winter
16 Dec 2010
Charles Dickens and his 'A Christmas carol' are routinely represented as a conscience-pricking call for charity at this time of the year. But, argues Harley Filben, there is more to the novel than that
Apathy or boredom?
16 Dec 2010
Ben Lewis reviews 'The Trotsky', Jacob Tierney (dir), Alliance Films (general release in Canada)
Tyneside bairn goes ghost dancing
09 Dec 2010
Tom Pickard reviews David Douglass's 'Ghost dancers: the miners' last generation part 3: Stardust and coaldust' Christiebooks, 2010, pp540, £12.95
Still not coming home
09 Dec 2010
Harley Filben looks at the furore surrounding England's failed bid for the World Cup
A Militant take on the Great Strike of 1984-85
25 Nov 2010
David Douglass reviews Ian Isaacs's 'When we were miners' Ken Smith Press, 2010, pp180, £7.99
From Stalinism to social democracy
18 Nov 2010
Chris Gray reviews Brian Hanley and Scott Millar's 'The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party' Penguin Books 2010, pp601, GBP9.99
Capitalism cracked
11 Nov 2010
Andrew Coates reviews John Holloway's 'Crack capitalism' Pluto Press, 2010, pp320, £16
Celluloid standouts
04 Nov 2010
Jim Moody summarises the highlights of the London Film Festival
Equal pay feel-good
21 Oct 2010
Amanda MacLean reviews Nigel Cole's (director) 'Made in Dagenham', 2010 (on general release)