Society & Culture > Reviews
Human contradiction
10 Oct 1996
From the debate surrounding the novels of Irvine Welsh, Phil Rudge argues that under today’s cultural conditions only artists who choose the lines of most resistance are able to even approach a committed literature
Royal repair job
10 Oct 1996
Alan Fox reviews The Queen by Ben Pimlott (Harper Collins, pp651)
Drowning world
03 Oct 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Ashes to ashes by Harold Pinter (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, at the Ambassadors, West Street, London)
Arthouse humanity
26 Sep 1996
John Craig reviews Smoke, Directed by Wayne Wang (USA, 1996)
Radical pioneers
26 Sep 1996
Phil Watson reviews Beat, Rhymes and Life, by A Tribe called Quest (Jive CD)
Into Africa - tooth and claw
26 Sep 1996
Folk enters Britpop
19 Sep 1996
Eddie Ford reviews Norma Waterson by Norma Waterson (Hannibal/Ryhodisc, 1996)
Crude attempt
12 Sep 1996
Breon James reviews Independence Day (directed by Roland Emmerich, 1996)
Action sundered
12 Sep 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Judith, a parting from the body, by Howard Barker (Battersea Arts Centre)
Dark moment in history
05 Sep 1996
review of Jesus Hernandez's How the NKVD framed the POUM (1996, pp27, £1)
Anti-propaganda propaganda
05 Sep 1996
Helen Ellis reviews the new Labour exhibition (Riverside Artists Group, Riverside Studios Gallery)
Lion’s meow
22 Aug 1996
Tommy Sheridan: If I were prime minister (Channel 4, August 11)
Exciting encounters
22 Aug 1996
Phil Rudge reviews solo guitar improvisations 1975-1977 (Domestic and public, CD, Emanem 1995) and Improvisation: its nature and practice in music (The British Library, 1992, 2nd ed) by Derek Bailey
Exotic squatters
25 Jul 1996
Breon James reviews White unto harvest by Mavis Howard, directed by Lisa Goldman
Fragmented lives
18 Jul 1996
Breon James reviews Fargo by Joel and Ethan Coen, at selected cinemas