Society & Culture > Reviews
Love hurts
19 Feb 1998
Kirby Dick ‘Sick: the life and death of Bob Flanagan, supermasochist’ 1997, ICA and selected cinemas
Class truths
12 Feb 1998
Dave Douglass reviews James Cameron's ‘Titanic’ (1997, general release)
History lessons
05 Feb 1998
Anna Weber reviews ‘Crimes and mercies - The fate of German civilians under Allied occupation, 1944 -1950’ by James Baque
The universe demystified
22 Jan 1998
Danny Hammill reviews Denis Brian's ‘Einstein: a life’
Frustration and disgust
08 Jan 1998
Mary Ward reviews ‘Drugs and the party line’ by Kevin Williamson
Smug complacency
08 Jan 1998
Alan Fox reviews ‘Onward Christian soldiers?’ by Clyde Wilcox
Style and reality in LA
27 Nov 1997
Andrew MacKay reviews 'LA Confidential', directed by Curtis Hanson
Universal lessons
13 Nov 1997
Nick Clarke reviews Bill Findlay's 'The Weavers' (from the original by Gerhart Hauptmann)
Friend of October
06 Nov 1997
On the 80th anniversary of the Russian Revolution Eddie Ford reviews the work of a commentator who became a partisan. ('Morgan Philips Price Dispatches from the revolution: Russia 1916-18', Pluto Press 1997, pp181)
Echoes across the century
09 Oct 1997
Jack Conrad reviews 'The strange death of Liberal England' by George Dangerfield (London 1997, pp364, £14.99)
End of anti-IRA propaganda war
09 Oct 1997
Eddie Ford reviews 'The Provos' (Peter Taylor documentary on BBC1)
Dour pessimism
02 Oct 1997
Alan Fox reviews 'Cross purpose' by Albert Camus (Prince Theatre, Greenwich, to October 5)
True spirit of Cliffism
18 Sep 1997
Jim Higgins’ More years of the locust: the origins of the Socialist Workers Party was reviewed by Mark Fischer in the Weekly Worker (August 21). Here Dave Hume adds his opinion of the International Socialist Group publication
Brief encounters
11 Sep 1997
Tom Ball reviews 'The censor' by Anthony Neilson (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, West Street, London WC2 to September 27)
You don’t play in clubs
11 Sep 1997
Phillip Watson reviews 'Free jazz: a collective improvisation' (Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, Atlantic CD)