The Rhyme of the Reddleman’s Daughter
Part I Wine berry, ta diddle, wagtail, den, he counted as he walked; to the spring of St Catherine…
Hunting the Jaguar
‘Where are you going?’ Inez asks ‘Nowhere,’ says Raoul. ‘Just out.’ The door slams and the house is empty.…
The Balm of Oranges
Harry Woodruff is sitting across from me at my table in the Sydney Free Legal Centre. His eyes are…
Telling Stories, Telling Lies?
Well Done God! Selected prose and drama of B.S. Johnson, Edited by Jonathan Coe, Philip Tew and Julia Jordan,…
Rameau and the Vertical
O/Modernt, Confidencen, Ulriksdals Slottsteater, Solna, Sweden, 9–17 June 2013 Combining the pursuit of excellence with highly imaginative program- ming,…
A Stable of Old Warhorses: Opera Holland Park, 2013
Les pêcheurs de perles (25 June, 2013) Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (28 July 2013) Madama Butterfly (29 June 2013)…
Songs in the Key of Rhyme
The Word on the Street – Rock Lyrics, Paul Muldoon, Faber and Faber, 96pp, £12.99 (hardback) Songs and Sonnets,…
Full Immersion in a Darkening Time
The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare, Fourth Estate, 374 pp, £18.99 (hardback) Staring up at the frescoes of a medieval…
Mr. New York
All That Is, James Salter, Picador, 304pp, £18.99 (hardback) ‘It will be a stronger book, pruned, treated as if…
Taking the air at Glyndebourne
Reviews of two Opera productions at this years Glyndebourne Festival
A Revolution Turns: A Coup Stalls
Who remembers Muhammad Naguib? His name is most often seen today by passengers on the Cairo underground, which honours…
Revolution in Hungary: A Country still Strangled by Political Corruption
From revolution to revolution, I have watched Hungary evolve over the past half-century. The more dramatic of the two…
‘The Blue Rode Well in the Corn’
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Roland Blythe, Penguin, 287pp, £9.99, (paperback) Mrs. Sullivan, fifty-five, headmistress, feels that ‘people…
The Sound of Painting
Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure The National Gallery 26 June 2013 – 8 September 2013…
Charming Baker – Guerrilla Art *Free
Edward Lucie-Smith writing on East London artist Charming Baker and Guerrilla art
London Calling! *Free
Proms 2013, Royal Albert Hall 12 July – 7 September With this year’s world-famous Promenade Concerts now in full…
The Legend of Livingstone
This year we commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the legendary explorer Dr. David Livingstone, one…
Concrete Overcoat
I was told Ronnie and Reggie used to start from the feet and work their way up, bulges rising…
Ustad Saaznawaz *Free
for Abir Bashir Bazaz As he weaves the ghazal the earth turns into water, gods dissolve in his tongue…
All the Wonders
His phone goes. The deep, quickening notes of the Jaws theme. Which means it’s his ex-wife. Not his joke.…
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