Taking a Long View
Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity, Malise Ruthven, IB Tauris, 267pp, £57.50 (hardback) The challenge which Islam,…
A Paraphrase for Survival
Bee Journal, Sean Borodale, Jonathan Cape, 112pp, £10 (paperback) Bees have been a symbol and source of eloquence for…
The Unknown Russian
An introduction to one of the most important artists yet to be discovered.
On your Marks
Ecstatics: A Language of Birds, Laura Drever and Lesley Harrison, Brae Editions, 36pp; The Long Woman, Charlotte Gann, Pighog…
Disorder into Melody:Opera Holland Park 2012
Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti (30 June 2012) Zanetto, Mascagni and Gianni Schicchi, Puccini (6 July 2012) Shortly before he…
Midterm Reports
Selected Poems, Don Paterson, Faber and Faber, 192pp, £14.99 (hardback) Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011, James Fenton, Faber and Faber,…
Signing the Vivid Air
Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender, Faber & Faber,…
Between Presence and Absence
Black Cat Bone, John Burnside, Cape Poetry, 66pp, £10 (paperback) Black Cat Bone presents us with a liminal world…
The Unbearable Heaviness of Human Beings
Insecurity, Inequality and Obesity in Affluent Societies, edited by Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek, Oxford University Press/British…
The Consolations of Music: Così fan tutte
OPERA Così fan tutte, ossia La Scuola degli amanti (1790), Opera Holland Park, Holland Park, London, with the City…
Fog Returns to Channel
NON-FICTION The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain, Ian Jack, Vintage, 320pp, £9.99 (paperback) Being British: What’s Wrong with…
Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the Kalevala
PAINTING Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931): A Finnish Passion Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 1 June-9 September 2012 (Previously at Helsinki Art Museum…
Between a Craft and a Calling
FICTION Infinity: The Story of a Moment, Gabriel Josipovici, Carcanet Press, 128pp, £12.95 (paperback) Infinity: The Story of a…
Sylvia, Shakespeare and Shamans
POETRY Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar, edited by Keith Sagar, The British Library,…
A Chinese Bail-Out
HISTORY Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak’s Christmas Day Dash 1941, Tim Luard, Hong Kong University Press, 320pp,…
The War Is Far from Finished: A Trio of Books about Iraq
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Setback of the Century: 11 September Cracks on the Mirrors of the Iraq War, Fatih Abdulsalam, Xlibris,…
Chromotherapy in Cokaigne
Perhaps the most ideal complement to the forest and the former royal residence at Saint-Germain-en-Laye is the nearby Maurice…
Hammerhead Revisited
The Little Magazines: A Study of Six Editors, Ian Hamilton, Faber and Faber, 152pp, £13 (paperback) Gazza Agonistes, Ian…
Thinkers Alike
When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson, Virago, 224pp, £16.99 (hardback) Diaries 1963-1981: As Consciousness is…
Different Voices
The Salt Harvest, Eoghan Walls, Seren, 64pp, £8.99 (paperback) Wondering About Many Women, Derwent May, Greenwich Exchange, 46pp, £7.99…
What Happened Next?
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions, Alex Rosenberg, W. W. Norton & Co., 352pp, £17.99 (hardback)…
All in the Mind
The Science Delusion, Rupert Sheldrake, Coronet, 400pp, £19.99 (hardback) The ultimate achievement of reason … is to recognise that…
The Hyacinths
Pressed in the soil’s black web, nursed by the rough offhand embrace of frost, the hyacinths turn in their…
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