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| Title |
Author (or location) |
Reviewer |
| A Child of Our Time | Michael Tippett | Kate McCabe |
| A Dirty War, a Russian reporter in Chechnya | Anna Politkovskaya | Kate McCabe |
| A New Labour Nightmare: the return of the awkward squad | Andrew Murray | Laurence Humphries |
| A Short History of Slavery | James Walvin | Susan Jappie |
| A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia | Estorick | Corinna Lotz |
| A very British strike | Anne Perkins | Paul Feldman |
| A World to Win: a rough guide to a future without global capitalism | Paul Feldman & Corinna Lotz | Peter Arkell |
| A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 | Antony Beevor | Peter Arkell |
| Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography | Hayward Gallery | Roger Huddle |
| Amazing Grace | Michael Apted | Maria Antonietta Perna |
| Americans in Paris | National Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| An inconvenient truth | Al Gore | Penny Cole |
| Another World Is Possible - a manifesto for a 21st century socialism | John McDonnell | Peter Arkell |
| Anselm Kiefer | White Cube | Robin Richmond |
| Anthony Caro | Tate Britain | Corinna Lotz |
| Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss | Land of Talk | Dylan Strain |
| Area 10 Project Space | Area 10 Project Space | Corinna Lotz |
| Artes Mundi | National Museum Cardiff | Melanie Abrams |
| Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream | Barbara Ehrenreich | Fiona Harrington |
| Bill Brandt | V&A | Corinna Lotz |
| Black Earth City | Charlotte Hobson | Kate McCabe |
| Brianstorm | Artic Monkeys | Dylan Strain |
| Brilliant women - 18th Century Bluestockings | National Portrait Gallery | Penny Cole |
| Capitalism as if the world matters | Jonathon Porritt | Paul Feldman |
| Capitalist & Conquerors. A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire | Peter McLaren | Alpesh Maisuria |
| Change the world without taking power | John Holloway | Phil Sharpe |
| Che as revolutionary and icon | V & A | Corinna Lotz; photos Lizzy Clarke |
| Choco, Colour and rhythm of Cuba | Chambers Gallery | Penny Cole |
| Classic Italian Film Posters | Estorick Collection | Robbie Griffiths |
| Classic Soviet Modernist Photographer Max Penson and the Soviet Modernisation of Uzbekistan 1920-1930s | Somerset House | Corinna Lotz |
| Communazis – FBI Surveillance of German Émigré Writers | Alexander Stephan | Corinna Lotz |
| David Smith | Tate Modern | Corinna Lotz |
| Defy the Stars, The Life and Tragic Death of Tom Hurndall | Jocelyn Hurndal | Peter Arkell |
| Denis Bowen | The Belgrave Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| Documenting Style: 60 Years of Fashion Photography | Magnum Photos | Melanie Abrams |
| Earth Shattering | Neil Astley | Penny Cole |
| Ellen Graubart: Paintings: Structured Images | Millenery Works Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| Enslaved: The New British Slavery | Rahila Gupta | Susan Jappie |
| Evaluating the operation of PFI in roads and hospitals. ACCA Research report No.84 | ACCA | Paul Feldman |
| Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate | Naomi Klein | Robert Silver |
| Forgotten Empire: the world of ancient Persia | British Museum | Corinna Lotz |
| Foxhunting and land ownership - the rich at play | RPM | John Eden |
| From Russia | Royal Academy | Corinna Lotz |
| Gal Rasche | Konzerthaus Vienna | Dylan Strain |
| GB84 | David Peace | Phil Sharpe |
| Globalisation, information and libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation’s GATS and TRIPS Agreements | Ruth Rikowski | John Vincent |
| Hadi never died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi trade unions | Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson | Laurence Humphries |
| Harold Pinter acceptance speech for Nobel Prize for Literature | Harold Pinter | Harold Pinter |
| Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for Literature | Harold Pinter | Penny Cole |
| Heat | George Monbiot | Penny Cole |
| Helen Macfarlane: a feminist, revolutionary journalist and philosopher in mid-nineteenth century England | David Black | Kate McCabe |
| Hogarth; Gilbert & George | Tate | Melanie Abrams |
| Holding Fire | Jack Shepherd | Penny Cole |
| Homeland | Nick Ryan | Corinna Lotz |
| How To Read Sartre | Robert Bernasconi | Maria Antonietta Perna |
| Huang Yong Ping | Vancouver Art Gallery | Robin Richmond |
| In Estates - An Intimate History | Lynsey Hanley | Stuart Barlow |
| In Rainbows | Radiohead | Dylan Strain |
| Inessa – Lenin’s Mistress | Michael Pearson | Cissie Lodge |
| Internal Conversations in the Dark | The Duke of Disillusion | Dylan Strain |
| Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures | Ziauddin Sardar | Corinna Lotz |
| It’s a Free World | Ken Loach | Corinna Lotz |
| John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers | Barbican | Corinna Lotz |
| Joseph Stalin (1878-1953): images of people, power and repression | British Library | Corinna Lotz |
| Just Law | Helena Kennedy | Paul Feldman |
| Kandinsky: the path to abstraction | Tate Modern | Corinna Lotz |
| Labour Party PLC | David Osler | Phil Sharpe |
| Leave before the lights come on | The Arctic Monkeys | Dylan Strain |
| Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman | Peter Arkell |
| Love House | the nkr | Dylan Strain |
| Marx’s Das Kapital, A Biography | Francis Wheen | Gerry Gold |
| Marx's Ecology | John Bellamy Foster | Kate McCabe |
| McLibel: The sequel - the postman and the gardener who took on McDonald's | Spanner Films | Gerry Gold |
| Merry Christmas | Asobi Seksu | Dylan Strain |
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | Penny Cole |
| Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master | British Museum | Corinna Lotz |
| Monday Love | The Good Ship | Dylan Strain |
| Naked | Benjamin Zephaniah | Peter Newton |
| Native Americans face the 21st Century | Alberto Arnoz | Corinna Lotz |
| No Logo | Naomi Klein | Stuart Radcliffe |
| Out from the shadow of a martyr | Ken Wiwa | Corinna Lotz |
| Painting the Summer: Henri Fantin-Latour | York City Art Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| Panic Prevention | Jamie-T | Dylan Strain |
| Paul Hart | JaggedArt | Corinna Lotz |
| Perfect Blemish Perffaith Nam | Menna Elfyn | Mike Clement |
| Peter Doig | Tate Britain | Corinna Lotz |
| Philosophical Arabesques | Nikolai Bukharin | Corinna Lotz |
| Photographs of the Touareg nomads | Alberto Arzoz | Corinna Lotz |
| Pictures against the wall | P.O.W. | Corinna Lotz |
| Plundering the Public Sector | David Craig | Gerry Gold |
| Rebel City - Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin labour movement | John Newsinger | Laurence Humphries |
| Red Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy | Peter McLaren and Companeras y Companeros | Spyros Themelis |
| Renaissance Siena Art for a City | National Gallery | Robin Richmond |
| Renoir Landscapes | National Gallery | Robin Richmond |
| Revolution at the Gates | Slavoj Zizek | Paul Feldman |
| Richard II | Shakespeare | Paul Feldman |
| Rock ‘N’ Roll | Tom Stoppard | Penny Cole |
| Rodin | Royal Academy | Corinna Lotz |
| Rough Crossings | Lyric Hammersmith | Eugene Dalton-Ruark |
| Russian Avant-Garde | Bozar, Brussels | Corinna Lotz |
| Scratch the Surface | National Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| Serapions | Edwin Piplits | Dylan Strain |
| Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Mark Lynas | Stuart Barlow |
| Sophie Scholl, the final days | Marc Rothemund | Corinna Lotz |
| Soviet Non-Conformist Art - Before and after the fall of the USSR | Chambers Gallery | Corinna Lotz |
| Spies, lies and whistleblowers | Annie Machon | Paul Feldman |
| Spook Country | William Gibson | Corinna Lotz |
| Squeezed, America as the Bubble Bursts | Danny Schechter | Gerry Gold |
| Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed | Michael K Jones | Corinna Lotz |
| State Britain | Mark Wallinger | Corinna Lotz |
| Stupid White Men | Michael Moore | Paul Feldman |
| Syriana | George Clooney | Penny Cole |
| Taking Liberties | Chris Atkins | Paul Feldman |
| Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy | Peter McLaren | Alpesh Maisuria |
| Teaching Peter McLaren. Paths of Dissent | Peter Lang Publishing | Alpesh Maisuria |
| Tête à Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre | Hazel Rowley | Maria Antonietta Perna |
| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Sally Wainwright | Dylan Strain |
| The Art of Lee Miller | V & A | Melanie Abrams |
| The battle for Spain | Antony Beevor | Corinna Lotz |
| The Battle of Venezuela | Michael McCaughan | Phil Sharpe |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Penny Cole |
| The Carbon Connection | Carbon Trade Watch | Penny Cole |
| The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset indulgences for your climate sins | Carbon Trade Watch | Fiona Harrington |
| The Edukators | Hans Weingartner | Corinna Lotz |
| The Father | Strindberg | Dylan Strain |
| The Good, The Bad & The Queen | Alborn, Allen, Tong, Simonon | Dylan Strain |
| The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real world | Ursula Huws | Corinna Lotz |
| The New Turkey | Chris Morris | Spyros Themelis |
| The Painting of Modern Life | Hayward Gallery | Robin Richmond |
| The Problem of the Media, US Communication Politics in the 21st Century | Robert W McChesney | Corinna Lotz |
| The Queen | Stephen Frear | Penny Cole |
| The Shield of Achilles | Philip Bobbitt | Paul Feldman |
| The Shock Doctrine - the rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein | Peter Arkell |
| The Trial of Tony Blair | Alistair Beaton | Fiona Harrington |
| The Tyrannicide Brief | Geoffrey Robertson | Paul Feldman |
| The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett | George Harbinson |
| The Unknown Monet | Royal Academy of Arts | Corinna Lotz |
| The War on Democracy | John Pilger | Peter Arkell & Nicole Curie |
| Tosca's Kiss | Kenneth Jupp | Corinna Lotz |
| Twelve Days - revolution 1956 | Victor Sebestyen | Paul Feldman |
| Twice a Stranger | Bruce Clark | Spyros Themelis |
| Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 | National Portrait Gallery | Melanie Abrams |
| Volta | Bjork | Dylan Strain |
| Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Penny Cole |
| Walk On The Moon | Asobi Seksu | Dylan Strain |
| We The People | Eric Schlosser | Corinna Lotz |
| Windrush Songs | James Berry | Penny Cole |
| Reviewer |
Title |
Author (or location) |
| Alpesh Maisuria | Capitalist & Conquerors. A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire | Peter McLaren |
| Alpesh Maisuria | Teaching Against Global Capitalism and the New Imperialism: A Critical Pedagogy | Peter McLaren |
| Alpesh Maisuria | Teaching Peter McLaren. Paths of Dissent | Peter Lang Publishing |
| Cissie Lodge | Inessa – Lenin’s Mistress | Michael Pearson |
| Corinna Lotz | A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia | Estorick |
| Corinna Lotz | Americans in Paris | National Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Anthony Caro | Tate Britain |
| Corinna Lotz | Area 10 Project Space | Area 10 Project Space |
| Corinna Lotz | Bill Brandt | V&A |
| Corinna Lotz | Classic Soviet Modernist Photographer Max Penson and the Soviet Modernisation of Uzbekistan 1920-1930s | Somerset House |
| Corinna Lotz | Communazis – FBI Surveillance of German Émigré Writers | Alexander Stephan |
| Corinna Lotz | David Smith | Tate Modern |
| Corinna Lotz | Denis Bowen | The Belgrave Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Ellen Graubart: Paintings: Structured Images | Millenery Works Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Forgotten Empire: the world of ancient Persia | British Museum |
| Corinna Lotz | From Russia | Royal Academy |
| Corinna Lotz | Homeland | Nick Ryan |
| Corinna Lotz | Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures | Ziauddin Sardar |
| Corinna Lotz | It’s a Free World | Ken Loach |
| Corinna Lotz | John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers | Barbican |
| Corinna Lotz | Joseph Stalin (1878-1953): images of people, power and repression | British Library |
| Corinna Lotz | Kandinsky: the path to abstraction | Tate Modern |
| Corinna Lotz | Michelangelo Drawings: Closer to the Master | British Museum |
| Corinna Lotz | Native Americans face the 21st Century | Alberto Arnoz |
| Corinna Lotz | Out from the shadow of a martyr | Ken Wiwa |
| Corinna Lotz | Painting the Summer: Henri Fantin-Latour | York City Art Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Paul Hart | JaggedArt |
| Corinna Lotz | Peter Doig | Tate Britain |
| Corinna Lotz | Philosophical Arabesques | Nikolai Bukharin |
| Corinna Lotz | Photographs of the Touareg nomads | Alberto Arzoz |
| Corinna Lotz | Pictures against the wall | P.O.W. |
| Corinna Lotz | Rodin | Royal Academy |
| Corinna Lotz | Russian Avant-Garde | Bozar, Brussels |
| Corinna Lotz | Scratch the Surface | National Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Sophie Scholl, the final days | Marc Rothemund |
| Corinna Lotz | Soviet Non-Conformist Art - Before and after the fall of the USSR | Chambers Gallery |
| Corinna Lotz | Spook Country | William Gibson |
| Corinna Lotz | Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed | Michael K Jones |
| Corinna Lotz | State Britain | Mark Wallinger |
| Corinna Lotz | The battle for Spain | Antony Beevor |
| Corinna Lotz | The Edukators | Hans Weingartner |
| Corinna Lotz | The Making of a Cybertariat: virtual work in a real world | Ursula Huws |
| Corinna Lotz | The Problem of the Media, US Communication Politics in the 21st Century | Robert W McChesney |
| Corinna Lotz | The Unknown Monet | Royal Academy of Arts |
| Corinna Lotz | Tosca's Kiss | Kenneth Jupp |
| Corinna Lotz | We The People | Eric Schlosser |
| Corinna Lotz; photos Lizzy Clarke | Che as revolutionary and icon | V & A |
| Dylan Strain | Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss | Land of Talk |
| Dylan Strain | Brianstorm | Artic Monkeys |
| Dylan Strain | Gal Rasche | Konzerthaus Vienna |
| Dylan Strain | In Rainbows | Radiohead |
| Dylan Strain | Internal Conversations in the Dark | The Duke of Disillusion |
| Dylan Strain | Leave before the lights come on | The Arctic Monkeys |
| Dylan Strain | Love House | the nkr |
| Dylan Strain | Merry Christmas | Asobi Seksu |
| Dylan Strain | Monday Love | The Good Ship |
| Dylan Strain | Panic Prevention | Jamie-T |
| Dylan Strain | Serapions | Edwin Piplits |
| Dylan Strain | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Sally Wainwright |
| Dylan Strain | The Father | Strindberg |
| Dylan Strain | The Good, The Bad & The Queen | Alborn, Allen, Tong, Simonon |
| Dylan Strain | Volta | Bjork |
| Dylan Strain | Walk On The Moon | Asobi Seksu |
| Eugene Dalton-Ruark | Rough Crossings | Lyric Hammersmith |
| Fiona Harrington | Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Fiona Harrington | The Carbon Neutral Myth: Offset indulgences for your climate sins | Carbon Trade Watch |
| Fiona Harrington | The Trial of Tony Blair | Alistair Beaton |
| George Harbinson | The Uncommon Reader | Alan Bennett |
| Gerry Gold | Marx’s Das Kapital, A Biography | Francis Wheen |
| Gerry Gold | McLibel: The sequel - the postman and the gardener who took on McDonald's | Spanner Films |
| Gerry Gold | Plundering the Public Sector | David Craig |
| Gerry Gold | Squeezed, America as the Bubble Bursts | Danny Schechter |
| Harold Pinter | Harold Pinter acceptance speech for Nobel Prize for Literature | Harold Pinter |
| John Eden | Foxhunting and land ownership - the rich at play | RPM |
| John Vincent | Globalisation, information and libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation’s GATS and TRIPS Agreements | Ruth Rikowski |
| Kate McCabe | A Child of Our Time | Michael Tippett |
| Kate McCabe | A Dirty War, a Russian reporter in Chechnya | Anna Politkovskaya |
| Kate McCabe | Black Earth City | Charlotte Hobson |
| Kate McCabe | Helen Macfarlane: a feminist, revolutionary journalist and philosopher in mid-nineteenth century England | David Black |
| Kate McCabe | Marx's Ecology | John Bellamy Foster |
| Laurence Humphries | A New Labour Nightmare: the return of the awkward squad | Andrew Murray |
| Laurence Humphries | Hadi never died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi trade unions | Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson |
| Laurence Humphries | Rebel City - Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin labour movement | John Newsinger |
| Maria Antonietta Perna | Amazing Grace | Michael Apted |
| Maria Antonietta Perna | How To Read Sartre | Robert Bernasconi |
| Maria Antonietta Perna | Tête à Tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre | Hazel Rowley |
| Melanie Abrams | Artes Mundi | National Museum Cardiff |
| Melanie Abrams | Documenting Style: 60 Years of Fashion Photography | Magnum Photos |
| Melanie Abrams | Hogarth; Gilbert & George | Tate |
| Melanie Abrams | The Art of Lee Miller | V & A |
| Melanie Abrams | Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 | National Portrait Gallery |
| Mike Clement | Perfect Blemish Perffaith Nam | Menna Elfyn |
| Paul Feldman | A very British strike | Anne Perkins |
| Paul Feldman | Capitalism as if the world matters | Jonathon Porritt |
| Paul Feldman | Evaluating the operation of PFI in roads and hospitals. ACCA Research report No.84 | ACCA |
| Paul Feldman | Just Law | Helena Kennedy |
| Paul Feldman | Revolution at the Gates | Slavoj Zizek |
| Paul Feldman | Richard II | Shakespeare |
| Paul Feldman | Spies, lies and whistleblowers | Annie Machon |
| Paul Feldman | Stupid White Men | Michael Moore |
| Paul Feldman | Taking Liberties | Chris Atkins |
| Paul Feldman | The Shield of Achilles | Philip Bobbitt |
| Paul Feldman | The Tyrannicide Brief | Geoffrey Robertson |
| Paul Feldman | Twelve Days - revolution 1956 | Victor Sebestyen |
| Penny Cole | An inconvenient truth | Al Gore |
| Penny Cole | Brilliant women - 18th Century Bluestockings | National Portrait Gallery |
| Penny Cole | Choco, Colour and rhythm of Cuba | Chambers Gallery |
| Penny Cole | Earth Shattering | Neil Astley |
| Penny Cole | Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for Literature | Harold Pinter |
| Penny Cole | Heat | George Monbiot |
| Penny Cole | Holding Fire | Jack Shepherd |
| Penny Cole | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| Penny Cole | Rock ‘N’ Roll | Tom Stoppard |
| Penny Cole | Syriana | George Clooney |
| Penny Cole | The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass |
| Penny Cole | The Carbon Connection | Carbon Trade Watch |
| Penny Cole | The Queen | Stephen Frear |
| Penny Cole | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Penny Cole | Windrush Songs | James Berry |
| Peter Arkell | A World to Win: a rough guide to a future without global capitalism | Paul Feldman & Corinna Lotz |
| Peter Arkell | A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 | Antony Beevor |
| Peter Arkell | Another World Is Possible - a manifesto for a 21st century socialism | John McDonnell |
| Peter Arkell | Defy the Stars, The Life and Tragic Death of Tom Hurndall | Jocelyn Hurndal |
| Peter Arkell | Life and Fate | Vasily Grossman |
| Peter Arkell | The Shock Doctrine - the rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein |
| Peter Arkell & Nicole Curie | The War on Democracy | John Pilger |
| Peter Newton | Naked | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| Phil Sharpe | Change the world without taking power | John Holloway |
| Phil Sharpe | GB84 | David Peace |
| Phil Sharpe | Labour Party PLC | David Osler |
| Phil Sharpe | The Battle of Venezuela | Michael McCaughan |
| Robbie Griffiths | Classic Italian Film Posters | Estorick Collection |
| Robert Silver | Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate | Naomi Klein |
| Robin Richmond | Anselm Kiefer | White Cube |
| Robin Richmond | Huang Yong Ping | Vancouver Art Gallery |
| Robin Richmond | Renaissance Siena Art for a City | National Gallery |
| Robin Richmond | Renoir Landscapes | National Gallery |
| Robin Richmond | The Painting of Modern Life | Hayward Gallery |
| Roger Huddle | Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography | Hayward Gallery |
| Spyros Themelis | Red Seminars: Radical Excursions into Educational Theory, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy | Peter McLaren and Companeras y Companeros |
| Spyros Themelis | The New Turkey | Chris Morris |
| Spyros Themelis | Twice a Stranger | Bruce Clark |
| Stuart Barlow | In Estates - An Intimate History | Lynsey Hanley |
| Stuart Barlow | Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Mark Lynas |
| Stuart Radcliffe | No Logo | Naomi Klein |
| Susan Jappie | A Short History of Slavery | James Walvin |
| Susan Jappie | Enslaved: The New British Slavery | Rahila Gupta |