Society & Culture > Reviews
Counting the cost
02 May 1996
John Bayliss reviews The nature of numbers by Ian Stewart (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, pp150, £9.99)
Utopian at heart
02 May 1996
Ian Mahoney reviews Social anarchism or lifestyle anarchism: An unbridgeable chasm by Murray Bookchin (AK Press, pp86, £5.95)
A play for our class
18 Apr 1996
Nancy Morelli reviews 'On the Line', by Alan Spence at Dundee Rep (7.30pm Monday to Saturday until April 27, £6. 75, concessions available)
Militant in Ireland
11 Apr 1996
Ian Mahoney reviews 'Troubled Times - the national question in Ireland' by Peter Hadden (Herald Books, pp159, £5.99)
History not set in stone
04 Apr 1996
Andrew Mackay reviews 'Nixon', directed by Oliver Stone (1996, general release)
Stomach-churningly frank
28 Mar 1996
Paul Greenaway reviews 'Trainspotting', directed by Danny Boyle (1995, general release)
Militant’s origins
21 Mar 1996
Ian Mahoney reviews 'The rise of Militant' by Peter Taaffe (Militant Publications, pp558, £9.99)
Moral conviction
14 Mar 1996
Paul Greenaway reviews 'The Body Trade', by Deborah Lavin, directed by Lisa Goldman for The Red Room (8.00pm, above The Lion & Unicorn pub, Gaysford Street NW5, £6, £4 concession)
Fascist distortions
07 Mar 1996
John Bayliss reviews 'Ecofascism' by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier (AK Press, pp73, £5.00)
Battle against all odds
07 Mar 1996
Helen Ellis reviews '20-52', directed by Jeremy Weller for Grassmarket Project at Tricycle theatre (NW6, Kilburn tube, 8pm, £7.50-£13, Mon and Sat matinee - pay what you can)
Wasted labour
22 Feb 1996
Eddie Ford reviews 'The Communist Party of Great Britain: a historical analysis to 1941' by Andrew Murray (Communist Liaison, 1995, pp106)
Heresy and orthodoxy
15 Feb 1996
Danny Hammill reviews 'Reinventing Darwin: The Great Evolutionary Debate' by Niles Eldredge, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995, pp244)
Gruesome stuff
08 Feb 1996
Eddie Ford reviews 'Seven', directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker (1995, US, general release)
Anarchist arrogance
08 Feb 1996
Danny Hammill reviews ‘I couldn’t paint golden angels: sixty years of commonplace life and anarchist agitation’ by Albert Meltzer (AK Press, 1996, pp386)
Humanity denied
04 Jan 1996
Danny Hammill reviews 'Burnt by the Sun' (directed by Nikita Mikalkov, 1994, Russia) and La Haine (directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995, France)