Society & Culture > Reviews
Anti-propaganda propaganda
05 Sep 1996
Helen Ellis reviews the new Labour exhibition (Riverside Artists Group, Riverside Studios Gallery)
Lion’s meow
22 Aug 1996
Tommy Sheridan: If I were prime minister (Channel 4, August 11)
Exciting encounters
22 Aug 1996
Phil Rudge reviews solo guitar improvisations 1975-1977 (Domestic and public, CD, Emanem 1995) and Improvisation: its nature and practice in music (The British Library, 1992, 2nd ed) by Derek Bailey
Exotic squatters
25 Jul 1996
Breon James reviews White unto harvest by Mavis Howard, directed by Lisa Goldman
Fragmented lives
18 Jul 1996
Breon James reviews Fargo by Joel and Ethan Coen, at selected cinemas
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)