Society & Culture > Reviews
David who?
07 Nov 1996
Eddie Ford reviews Seventeen years of obscurity: memoirs from the back benches by David Watkins (The Book Guild Ltd 1996, pp235)
Properly utopian
07 Nov 1996
Kevin Watts reviews Breaking the waves, co-written and directed by Lars von Trier
Mummified ideology
24 Oct 1996
Phil Rudge reviews Red square, black square - Organon for revolutionary imagination by Vladislav Todorov (1995, pp200)
Unsaleable discovery
10 Oct 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Blinded by the sun by Stephen Poliakoff, directed by Ron Daniels (Cottosloe theatre, London)
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)