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…
Ella
I The only thing we had in common was our love of jazz. On Friday nights my father would…
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…
My London
The first in the My London series, asking writers what living in – or visiting London means to them
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…
Syria
SUFFER THE COUNTRY Suffer the curled up corpses of the tortured Suffer the cluttered ranks of the bound and…
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.…
Two Poems
Breathless ‘The past is preserved within objects as souls are kept in earthen bodies.’ Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of…
Reading Lessons in the Brilliant Sunshine
As the cantabile lyrics,of eternal prophets lull the moon’s breath from the tide, And your eyes soak up calligraphic…
Two Poems
Puberty 1 In the bathroom to scold you, I find an odalisque, my daughter blurred by humidity, a moist-blind…
Be Still the River
Nine days after burying their mother in a grove of milkweed and cypress, Ingrid took her sister, Baya, away…
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