Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading
Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading
Stuart Cartland criticises the jingoistic response to the BBC’s decisions about Rule Britannia. If as a nation we are to be serious about addressing racism and legacies of... Continue reading
John Green reviews Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels. The above image is Hans Holbein’s 1530s portrait of Thomas Cromwell Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on the life of... Continue reading
13th October 2040 Dear Richard, I know it must be weird and more than slightly disturbing to receive a ‘letter from beyond the grave’, but I trust... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell gives the historical background to Boccaccio’s work The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million... Continue reading
Shana L. Redmond writes about Paul Robeson’s afterlife in a U.S. Prison “I have begun to undertake the task of trying to establish a Paul Robeson month here... Continue reading
What if there was no divide? by Jane Burn What if life, for so many of us wasn’t a chasm? You only have a basic understanding. It’s... Continue reading
Paul Simon reviews Dennis Broe’s new novel Author Dennis Broe is an international expert on film noir and an acclaimed socialist writer, as his dialectical and highly... Continue reading
Sacred Symphony is a new collection of poems on life in inner-city Dublin, by Karl Parkinson, with photographs by Peter O’Doherty. It includes All the Swings are Gone and is... Continue reading