Author Archives: leslie

Cakes, Quizzes, Corpses

Posted on April 4, 2025 by leslie

   Cakes, Quizzes, Corpses, by Bill Hartley The current Peruvian Minister of the Interior Juan Jose Santinavanez Antunez was appointed in November of last year. He is the sixth Interior Minister in the current government; that’s an average of one … Continue reading →

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Wily Amphibian; Velasco, between Art and Science

Posted on April 1, 2025 by leslie

Wily Amphibian; Velasco, between Art and Science José María Velasco, A View of Mexico, Dexter Dalwood & Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Yale University Press, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the National Gallery, 29 March-17 August 2025, reviewed by Leslie Jones The … Continue reading →

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Hope, Tempered by Realism

Posted on March 19, 2025 by leslie

Hope, Tempered by Realism Hopeful Pessimism, Mara van der Lugt, Princeton University Press, 2025, Oxford & Princeton, HB, 255pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones According to Max Weber, the development of religions all over the world was predicated on one pertinent … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, March-April 2025

Posted on March 8, 2025 by leslie

[Bruckner c 1892, credit Wikipedia] Endnotes, March-April 2025 In this edition: Archive performances of Bruckner from SOMM Records * Rare Holst from EM Records * Coronation Procession, by Ruth Gipps, reviewed by Stuart Millson A belated, final salute from The … Continue reading →

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First Century Miracle Worker

Posted on March 5, 2025 by leslie

First Century Miracle Worker Gerard Boter (ed.), Flavius Philostratus: Vita Appolonii Tyanei, 2022. DeGruyter. Pp. I-LXIII, 1-322. $91.99. Gerard Boter (ed.), Critical Notes on Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana. 2023. DeGruyter. Pp. I-VIII, 1-317. $131.99. Reviewed by Darrell Sutton … Continue reading →

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Shooting Turkeys

Posted on January 26, 2025 by leslie

Shooting Turkeys, by Bill Hartley Kris Kristofferson, who died last year aged 88, never wanted to be an actor. Indeed, his legacy rests chiefly on his song writing compositions which have been performed by more than 500 artists. Besides being … Continue reading →

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The Final Pandemic

Posted on January 18, 2025 by leslie

The Final Pandemic: An Antidote to Medical Tyranny (2024), written and published by Dr Mark Bailey & Dr Samantha Bailey, foreword by Professor Tim Noakes, a book review and discussion by Dr A. R. Kneen The official narrative of ‘the pandemic’ could … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, January-February 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, January-February 2025 In this edition: piano music from early 19th-century French women composers; 20th-century British chamber music. Reviewed by Stuart Millson New from the Presences Compositrices label comes a revelatory glimpse into the musical world of the late-18th and … Continue reading →

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Bradford, a ‘House Divided’

Posted on December 15, 2024 by leslie

                    Bradford, a ‘House Divided’, by Bill Hartley At the ironically named Bradford Transport Interchange, the bus station has been closed since January of this year, because of ‘structural problems’. The … Continue reading →

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The Question of Unworthy Life

Posted on November 30, 2024 by leslie

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century; Dagmar Herzog, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2024, 302pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones According to Dagmar Herzog, the history of racial hygiene (a term coined by biologist Alfred Ploetz) … Continue reading →

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