James Crossley analyses Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, unearthing their twin discourses of a materialist explanation of American capitalism and an expression of a revolutionary Christianity. Even if... Continue reading
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Andrew Warburton reviews Cubanacan, the first new Cuban opera in almost 50 years. When Cubanacan: A Revolution of Forms received its world premiere at the Havana Biennale... Continue reading
Professor Anne Duggan explores the history of classical fairy tales and their double-sided relationship with class, whereby they both ‘evade and compensate for a dire social reality’,... Continue reading
John Green introduces the life of Jack London. There is a hullabaloo around the quincentenary this year of Shakespeare’s death, but Jack London’s centenary appears to have... Continue reading
Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the... Continue reading
Professor Gabriel Egan concludes his series on Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s fellow playwright Ben Jonson paid him a compliment that has come to haunt the study of plays from... Continue reading
Gordon Parsons reviews Joe Kelleher’s book on theatre and politics. W. H. Auden’s insisted that all his poetry put together had not saved a single Jew, and... Continue reading
In the second part of his series, Mark Abel asks how Marxists should judge music. In the first part of this series of articles, I argued that... Continue reading
Is there a British band in today’s music industry that definitively reflects or comments on the consequences of Tory austerity? Or one that is a direct reaction... Continue reading
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