Society & Culture > Reviews
The Darwinian revolution
21 Dec 1995
Danny Hammill reviews 'Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life' by Daniel Dennett (The Penguin Press 1995, pp586) and 'River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life' by Richard Dawkins (Weidenfield & Nicolson 1995, pp172)
Heroic struggle turned to self-blame
07 Dec 1995
Shuttle by Joseph Crilly at the Red Room October Song by Andrew Hinds at the Orange Tree
Raise your banners
30 Nov 1995
Royal skeletons rattled
30 Nov 1995
Danny Hammill reviews Channel Four’s 'Secret Lives: Edward VIII, the Traitor King'
Failed approach
30 Nov 1995
Dave Hulme reviews 'Socialists in the trade unions' by Alex Callinicos (Bookmarks, pp79)
Toeing the party line
23 Nov 1995
Danny Hammill reviews 'Art and Power: Europe under the dictators 1930-45' at Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre (October 26 1995 - January 21 1996, £5, £3.50 concessions)
Strangled passion
02 Nov 1995
Helen Ellis reviews 'Trouble sleeping' by Nick Ward (Warehouse Theatre until November 12)
Hope and betrayal: Spain 1936
26 Oct 1995
Danny Hammill reviews 'Land and Freedom', directed by Ken Loach (general release)
Bravehearts and strong stomachs
21 Sep 1995
John Walsh reviews 'Braveheart' on general release
American war story
21 Sep 1995
Danny Hammill reviews 'The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation' by Tom Engelhardt (Basic Books 1995, pp351)
Lenin’s misused consul
10 Aug 1995
Jack Conrad reviews ‘John Maclean and the CPGB’ by Robert Pitt (London 1995, pp44, £1.50)
Challenging as ever
03 Aug 1995
Danny Hammill reviews Thrak, Studio album by King Crimson (Discipline Global Mobile, 1995)
Marvellous cruelty
20 Jul 1995
Danny Hammill reviews ‘Volpone or the Fox - a Comedy’ by Ben Jonson, directed by Katherine Bond (Large Door Productions, Greenwich Covered Market)
A world divided
15 Jun 1995
Helen Ellis reviews 'Pentecost' by David Edgar, directed by Michael Attenborough
The Party's not over yet
11 May 1995
Mark Fischer reviews 'Enemy within: The rise and fall of the British Communist Party' by Francis Beckett