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Latest CD reviews [ view all ]

The Rough Guide to yodel

review by Ian Simmons

For fans of sarcastic yodelling everywhere.

Grides

review by Ian Simmons

Teeth-grinding tedium or classic jazz-rock, depending on your taste...

Black one

review by Ian Simmons

Whoa, dude - 'Cursed realms (of the winterdemons)'?

London is the place for me

review by Ian Simmons

Calypso, kwela and highlife - what more can life offer?

The Viking of Sixth Avenue

review by Ian Simmons

Fifty years of Moondog's magnificence

Latest book reviews [ view all ]

The Selborne pioneer

review by Richard Barnett

The life of a gentleman and a scholar.

She did it her way...

review by Harry Reynolds

A new biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton is damning, though probably not in the way its authors hoped.

The True Believer

review by Joe Palmer

"The 'American Dream' has been shelved by popular demand. Our schools reflect a society segregated by race, class, and money, and that’s the way we want it."

Interventions

review by Robert Philbin

Distilled Chomsky.

Technologies of magic

review by Tom Ruffles

The notion of 'magic' is a slippery one and can encourage waffle when it is not pinned down sufficiently...

Latest film reviews [ view all ]

Blood of an innocent

review by Douglas Messerli

Del Toro negotiates a path between paternalistic and magic realities.

The unordinary obsessions of ordinary lives

review by Douglas Messerli

In 'Year of the Dog', Mike White's latest film, his characters manage to embrace their everyday reality.

Globalism and the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu

review by Robert Philbin

Three films in praise of compassion.

Three Films: Bernardo Bertolucci and the Fascist Mind

review by Robert Philbin

"The neoconservative movement has been viewed as a uniquely American claim to the future, as if some 'end of history' has arrived and the United States is the economic-political engine that will drive the future for all humanity."

Flags and letters

review by Douglas Messerli

"It appears, [Clint] Eastwood suggests, that a culture that prefers flags to letters, a culture which offers up symbols as opposed to simple human expression, is doomed to estrangement."