Monthly Archives: January 2014

EpiQR – Mango Lounge, Windsor

…with Em Marshall-Luck Mango Lounge Windsor Due to the fact that I have travelled in India and tasted “real” Indian food, I tend to avoid Indian restaurants in Great Britain, which generally bear a similar relationship to their mother cuisine … Continue reading

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Journey into Guilt – Detour (1945)

Journey into guilt Detour (1945) The term film noir is loose and sometimes controversial, but for many people Detour could encapsulate the genre. It is American, it is shot in black-and-white, it is a thriller, and it focuses on a … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES

ENDNOTES Manon, Jules Massenet; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 14 January 2014 As Christopher Anthony Meade has aptly but inelegantly observed, in opera we get the most beautiful music “allied with the greatest drivel ever to escape from the twisted mind of … Continue reading

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Modernity in a medieval city

Modernity in a medieval city Modern Masters in Print, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, until 30 March, admission free Just down the hill from the superb Lincoln Cathedral is the Usher Gallery, the rather unlikely setting for this peripatetic V&A exhibition, which … Continue reading

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RADICALS & REACTIONARIES – Alan Ian Percy

RADICALS & REACTIONARIES National noblesse oblige – the anti-communist career of Alan Ian Percy ROGER DE COVERLEY In this crisis, salvation can only be achieved by a return to convictions and principles which may be dubbed ‘reactionary’. But which will … Continue reading

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Fascist Italy speaks

Fascist Italy Speaks Fascist Voices: an Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy, Christopher Duggan, Vintage, London, 2013, 501pp, pb, £10.99 Leslie Jones listens to some “ordinary” Italians It is possible to identify two distinct but not necessarily incompatible perspectives on Italian … Continue reading

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Thomas Sipos – a libertarian in Hollywood

Thomas Sipos – a libertarian in Hollywood MARK WEGIERSKI profiles one of America’s most distinctive horror writers Thomas M. Sipos must be one of America’s most unusual libertarian-conservative ‘culture warriors’ – notable for his ‘paleolibertarian’ views, his chosen career, his … Continue reading

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Land hunger, land anger

Land hunger, land anger The Field (1990) DEREK TURNER The Field opens in dramatic style. The setting is the rural west of Ireland, in 1965. A father and son are seen silhouetted at the top of a cliff, having dragged … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES Tasmin Little – ebullient torch-carrier for excellence

ENDNOTES Tasmin Little – ebullient torch-carrier for excellence Classical Music Editor Stuart Millson meets TASMIN LITTLE, O.B.E. Just before Christmas, the Quarterly Review was very fortunate to meet one of our country’s foremost musical talents, the brilliant violinist, Tasmin Little. Known … Continue reading

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