Society & Culture > Reviews
British imports
02 Dec 1999
Jack Conrad reviews 'Leave to remain', written by Leon London and directed Lisa Goldman (Battersea Arts Centre, until December 12, £8 or £5 concessions)
Time to forgive
25 Nov 1999
Phil Sharpe reviews 'How It All Began' by Nikolai Bukharin (Columbia University Press, 1998, pp345, £13.95)
Fear of darkness
25 Nov 1999
James Robertson reviews 'The Blair Witch Project' (USA 1999), directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez
Cornered poets society
28 Oct 1999
Danny Hammill reviews ‘More agitation: political satires and other poems’ by Bob Dixon More (Artery Publications 1999, pp60, £3.50)
In living colour
28 Oct 1999
José Villa reviews BBC1’s ‘Walking with dinosaurs’
Hero and criminal
14 Oct 1999
Ian Mahoney reviews ‘Redemption song: Muhammad Ali and the spirit of the sixties’ by Mike Marqusee (London 1999, pp310, hbk, £17)
Vote apple or orange
14 Oct 1999
James Robertson reviews ‘Election’ (1999), directed by Alexander Payne
Semi-religious method
07 Oct 1999
Ian Donovan reviews Leon Trotsky's 'Transitional programme' (edited by the International Bolshevik Tendency, Bolshevik Publications. 1999, pp218, £5)
Communist culture
23 Sep 1999
Phil Watson reviews ‘A weapon in the struggle: the cultural history of the Communist Party in Britain’ by Andy Croft (Pluto Press 1998, pp218, £14.99)
Masterpiece of the coded message
09 Sep 1999
James Robertson reviews ‘Journey to the sun’ by Yesim Ustaoglu, Turkey/Germany 1999, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Turkish with English subtitles
System failure
19 Aug 1999
James Robertson reviews 'The Matrix'
Lukács, Brecht and bureaucratic socialism - Fraught relationships
29 Jul 1999
Phil Watson reviews ‘Aesthetics and politics’ (Verso, 1999)
Turning the GM tide?
08 Jul 1999
Mary Godwin reviews 'Genetic engineering, food and our environment: a brief guide' by Luke Anderson
Learning from the fascists
01 Jul 1999
Mark Fischer looks at the April 21 edition of Fighting Talk, published by Anti-Fascist Action
Thatcherite emptiness
24 Jun 1999
Phil Sharpe reviews the film 'Notting Hill'