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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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Weilerstein, NYO2, Payare / Dueñas, Malofeev, Edinburgh Inte...

NYO2 is a group of dazzlingly talented (and terrifyingly young-looking) 14-17 year olds from the USA, one of Carnegie Hall’s three national youth...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by...

Monstering the Rocketman by Henry Naylor, Pleasance Dome ★★...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on sex, lo...

"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist-novelist-director...

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons

Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in...

Album: Black Honey - Soak

The default setting for Brighton indie quartet Black Honey...

Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review - emotional concentration...

Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it appear a simple story....

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly...

Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as...