Jon Baldwin reviews the new book by Gregor Gall, Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero (Manchester University Press, 2024) Mick Lynch is a 60-year-old London... Continue reading
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Tag: Brecht
Since the Second World War, authors have regularly conceived of plots set around a cataclysmic event that cuts off people or places from the rest of the... Continue reading
Culture Matters is pleased to present this short film by Professor Esther Leslie, Carl Joyce and Mike Quille. Professor Leslie’s text is below. Walter Benjamin was interested... Continue reading
Jim Aitken analyses the links between philosophical and cultural relativism, anti-intellectualism and far right politics, in a wide-ranging, discursive essay. The image above is of the Night of the... Continue reading
Dave Lordan continues his series on culture, class and civilisation About 10,000 years ago, after 3.6 million years of the Stone Age, humanity began to slowly and... Continue reading
David Betteridge writes critically and creatively about the artwork above, Nature writing, Bertolt Brecht, and eco-communism. The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount... Continue reading
In the run-up to the anniversary of Peterloo, Jenny Farrell discusses political poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Kinsella On 16 August 1819, tens... Continue reading
On the 170th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto, Jenny Farrell introduces Brecht’s poetic re-writing of the Communist Manifesto, with its ‘spectre of communism, which... Continue reading
Alain Badiou writes about the links between poetry and communism, with particular reference to the poetry of the Spanish Civil War. In the last century, some truly... Continue reading