On The Wrong Side of History
The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth, trans. Michael Hofmann, Granta 2013, 320pp, £9.99 (paperback) The Emperor’s Tomb, Joseph Roth, trans.…
Long After Macaulay
The ‘Georgians Revealed’ exhibition currently on at the British Library…
Whistler by River and Sea by Marina Vaizey
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames Dulwich Picture Gallery 16 October 2013 – 12 January 2014 The charming,…
The Allure of the Pearl
Read Lana’s review of the Pearl exhibition currently on at the V&A
Music for the Newer Rite
A review of Thomas Hewitt Jones’s recording ‘Incarnation: Music for Christmas’
A Generous Correspondent
Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews, Jeffrey Meyers, Palgrave Macmillan 2013, 124pp, £30 (hardback) Jeffrey Meyers met Iris Murdoch…
The Ironical Gaiety of Isaiah Berlin
Building: Letters 1960-1975, by Isaiah Berlin, Edited by Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle, Chatto and Windus, 704pp, £40, (hardback)…
A Conventional Rebel
The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012, Richard Murphy, Bloodaxe Books, 288pp, £12 (paperback) The Pleasure Ground: Poems 1952-2012 is a…
Hellenistic Journey
A Monastery of Light, Sebastian Barker, The Bow-Wow shop, 62pp, £14.99 (hardback) Sebastian Barker is the son of the English…
The Trouble with Poetry
Collected Poems, Ian Hamilton, edited by Alan Jenkins, Faber and Faber, 160pp, £14.99 (paperback) The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry,…
Coetzee in his Castle
The Childhood of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee, Harvill Secker, 288pp, £12.99 (hardback) In the months leading up to the release…
The Centenary of The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories, Robert Craft, Naxos Books, £19.99 (hardback), including a CD of The Rite of Spring recorded…
A Makeshift Homeland
A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald, trans. by Jo Catling, Hamish Hamilton, 224pp, £20 (hardback) It may…
A Lament For Many Things
The Italian Visitor, Grey Gowrie, Carcanet, 112pp, £9.95 (paperback) The title sequence of this collection is a clever and…
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
At White Cube
The Norfolk beaches of my childhood must have been a state of grace. Within that monochrome and windy bowl…
The Life of the Author: Roland Barthes’s China Tour
Travels in China, by Roland Barthes, translated by Andrew Brown, edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Polity, 196pp, £16.99 (hardback)…
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