Archive for November, 2011
Clang, clang go jail guitar doors
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, November 28th, 2011Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Crossroads Books, £11.99
A window opens on urban life
By Aleks Sierz /Monday, November 28th, 2011The Westbridge
Royal Court Theatre Local, London
Ex
Soho Theatre, London
Joy Johnson
By Joy Johnson /Monday, November 28th, 2011As Osborne swings the axe, we need a Tobin tax
Examining the Great Tradition of the English novel and the Wizard of Boz
By Robert Giddings /Sunday, November 27th, 2011Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Viking, £30
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Belknap Press, £30
The Dickens Bicentenary 1812-2012 by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Trespasssers should be prosecuted
By Patrick Mulcahy /Sunday, November 27th, 2011Trespass
Director: Joel Schumacher
50/50
Director: Jonathan Levine
Treasures from the Silver mine
By Geoffrey Goodman /Saturday, November 26th, 2011Dateline Jerusalem: Reporting the Middle East 1967-2008 by Eric Silver
Revel Barker Publishing, £15.99
Berlusconi the great illusionist and confidence trickster
By Bryan Rostron /Saturday, November 26th, 2011Silvio Berlusconi is the great illusionist of our age. Political obituaries painted him as a “colourful playboy”. Yet if an African leader had a similar record, commentators would label him a dangerous demagogue: the classic “big man” seeking power for his own profit and gratification. But being Italy’s richest man, controlling much of its media, [...]