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Hugh Barnes is a war reporter and author of three books (Special Effects, Gannibal and Understanding Iran) and editor of green-socialist.com

Articles By Hugh Barnes

Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying art

Saturday, 02 August 2025 Read more...

The Road to Patagonia review - journey to the end of the world

Thursday, 10 July 2025 Read more...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

Tuesday, 01 July 2025 Read more...

Words of War review - portrait of a doomed truth-seeker in Putin's Russia

Thursday, 08 May 2025 Read more...

Two to One review - bank heist with a big catch

Monday, 05 May 2025 Read more...

Stelios review - Athenian rhapsody in blues

Saturday, 26 April 2025 Read more...

The Problem With People review - local zero

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

Alan Hollinghurst: Our Evenings review - a gift that keeps on giving

Monday, 04 November 2024 Read more...

The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zone

Tuesday, 29 October 2024 Read more...

Endurance review - the greatest escape, AI-assisted

Wednesday, 16 October 2024 Read more...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Friday, 11 October 2024 Read more...

The Teacher review - tense West Bank drama

Saturday, 28 September 2024 Read more...

The law's sick voyeurism - director Cédric Kahn on 'The Goldman Case'

Saturday, 21 September 2024 Read more...

My Favourite Cake review - woman, love, and freedom

Monday, 16 September 2024 Read more...

Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution review - home truths

Friday, 01 March 2024 Read more...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Read more...

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theartsdesk at the Three Choirs Festival - Passion in the Ca...

“Powerful, Timeless, Inspiring” it says on the front cover of the programme-book for this year’s supposedly 297th Three Choirs Festival at...

Natalia Ginzburg: The City and the House review - a dying ar...

Many readers and writers think of epistolary novels as old-fashioned, just as letter writing itself can seem a bit quaint nowadays. The genre...

Album: Mansur Brown - Rihla

I like to think I’m open to most things, but even so I never thought that I’d be getting an education in prog metal in the summer of 2025. Let...

BBC Proms: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Kaljuste rev...

Arvo Pärt was into his 40s before he made had his Big Musical Idea: simplicity. He has spent the subsequent half-century pursuing this ideal,...

Top Hat, Chichester Festival Theatre review - top spectacle...

After 76 years, you’d have thought they could’ve come up with a better story! Okay, that’s a cheap jibe and, given the elusive...

Late Shift review - life and death in an understaffed Swiss...

Floria (the superb Leonie Benesch: The Crown; The Teachers’ Lounge; September 5) is a nurse, working the severely understaffed...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Alright Sunshine / K Mak at t...

Alright Sunshine, Pleasance Dome ★★...

The Naked Gun review - farce, slapstick and crass stupidity

The original Naked Gun series (spun off from the Police Squad! TV show) brought reliable belly-laughs to the Eighties and...

Album: Reneé Rapp - Bite Me

The stage musical update of Mean Girls, and the film adaptation, pushed Reneé Rapp into the public eye. She played queen bitch Regina...