Society & Culture > Reviews
Follow that car
11 Jul 1996
Car, a touring production from the Cholmondeleys. Performed outdoors at sites around the UK until August 25
‘Huttonomics’ and the ‘Blair Revolution’
04 Jul 1996
Richard James reviews The state we’re in by W Hutton (1995, pp352) and The Blair revolution - can New Labour deliver? by P Mandelson and R Liddle (1996, pp274)
First modern sport
27 Jun 1996
Phil Rudge reviews Anyone but England - cricket and the national malaise by Mike Marqusee, (Verso Press 1995, pp273)
Murder and smiles
27 Jun 1996
John Craig reviews Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine
To make us grieve
20 Jun 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Coriolanus, directed by Steven Berkoff at the Mermaid Theatre (London, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, £9.50-£18.50)
Philosophical limitations
20 Jun 1996
Phil Sharpe of the Trotskyist Unity Group makes some initial comments on István Mészáros’s latest work, Beyond Capital (Merlin Press 1995)
Severe excess deaths
13 Jun 1996
John Craig reviews Hungry Ghosts - China’s Secret Famine by Jasper Becker (John Murray Publishers, London 1996)
Rave’s social explosion
13 Jun 1996
First Alabama 3 single out on August 23 on Elemental Records. Appearing at Phoenix and Reading festivals
On the edge
06 Jun 1996
Breon James reviews Sunspots, by Judy Upton, directed by Lisa Goldman (Red Room, 42-44 Gaisford Street, Kentish Town, London; £6, £4 concessions)
Topsy-Turvy
06 Jun 1996
Phil Rudge reviews William Morris (the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington); William Morris: questioning the legacy (Crafts Council Gallery, Pentonville Road, Islington); William Morris (talk by Tony Benn, at WM Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow)
Precipice of disaster
30 May 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Archaos' Game over (Brixton Academy, £17.50 and £20.00)
Two worlds collide
30 May 1996
Phil Rudge reviews Bartleby by Herman Melville (Penguin 1996, pp47)
The whirligig of time
30 May 1996
John Craig reviews Twelve Monkeys (directed by Terry Gilliam, 1996)
Race scientists re-enter mainstream
23 May 1996
Eddie Ford reviews The Race Gallery: the return of racial science by Marek Kohn (Jonathan Cape London 1995, pp322)
Art attack
16 May 1996
Kevin Newton reviews 'Revolting Britain' (Viewpoint Galleries, Charlotte Street, Manchester)