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Blowback
Blowback Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue, The New British Politics, Penguin, 2023, Pb, 239 pp, U.K. £10.99, reviewed by Leslie Jones A major realignment is taking place in British politics, according to Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at the … Continue reading
Revelations
Revelations Selma Gokcen and Kenneth Cooper, Bach Revealed: A Player’s Guide to the Solo Cello Suites by J.S. Bach, Volume One – Suites I and III BWV 1007–1008, reviewed by Joseph Spooner Judging by the designations given to musical events, … Continue reading
Speke for England
Speke for England River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard, Swift Books, 2023, pp349, reviewed by William Hartley Two Victorian explorers risking their lives and wrecking their health … Continue reading
Endnotes, May 2023
Endnotes In this edition: Carl Nielsen, an inextinguishable force in music, reviewer Stuart Millson The surging Nordic seascapes of Denmark – winds from the North and Baltic Seas; the rustle of springtime in the rural realm of Funen; the Danish … Continue reading
The Categorical Imperative
The Categorical Imperative, by Bill Hartley For many years our prison system has operated on the basis of incentives. A prisoner who behaves himself can expect to … Continue reading
The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity
Benjamin P. Laird, The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity: its Formation, Publication and Circulation. Hendrickson Academic (2022). Pp. i-xx, 1-371. $59.95. Reviewed by Darrell Sutton Revisions of doctoral dissertations are not necessarily a pleasure to read. In this case, however, … Continue reading
Special Review
Special Review by Stuart Millson of Handel’s Messiah, at the Church of St. James the Great, East Malling, Kent The Bach B minor Mass, Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Messiah are probably the best-known choral works of the 18th century: towering … Continue reading
ENDNOTES, APRIL 2023
Endnotes, April 2023 In this edition: review of the music of John Ireland; an interview with composer Nimrod Borenstein, both prepared by Stuart Millson Throughout the flowering of the English musical renaissance (the period from about 1890 to the … Continue reading
Pauline Conversion
Pauline Conversion After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, National Gallery, 22nd March 2023, curated by MaryAnne Stevens; After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, Catalogue of the Exhibition, National Gallery Global, 2023, reviewed by Leslie Jones After Impressionism covers the supposedly pivotal period from … Continue reading
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Atlas Woke
Atlas Woke, by Bill Hartley Historical geography has been defined as ‘the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographical phenomena have changed over time’. There used to be a more succinct definition: ‘the study of past landscapes’ … Continue reading