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."