'In Gaza, art is not a luxury, it is an act of resistance'

How artists have documented the daily, lived experience of injustice, brutality and war

I was catching up on episodes of the brilliant books podcast Backlisted only to discover an author from the North West who I knew nothing about - Olaf Stapledon, philosopher and writer of science fiction before it was called science fiction. Born in Wirral, he spent much of his childhood in Egypt before returning to the Peninsula. His first novel, Last …