Latest CD reviews [ view all ]
The labyrinth scored for 11 different cats
review by Ian Simmons
A medieval penitential labyrinth interpreted in purrs. Very high concept.
Skullflower
review by Ian Simmons
Experimental drone metal, apparently.
Victrola favourites
review by Ian Simmons
Misogyny, yodelling and songs about pigs - unmissable
Rosemarie
review by Ian Simmons
Break out the patchouli, guys...
Revolutions
review by Douglas Messerli
Almodóvar's Volver is a kind of 'revolution' is several senses.
Latest book reviews [ view all ]
The death and life of the Great American school system
review by Steve Danzis
Testing, accountability and school choice are doing irreparable harm to the American public education system.
The sympathetic medium
review by Tom Ruffles
Transcribing, sending, receiving and recording information between the living was essentially the same as doing so between living and dead in the 19th century
The Poisoner's Handbook
review by Harry Reynolds
The Jazz Age toxicology pioneer.
Immortal longings
review by Tom Ruffles
FWH Myers, Society for Psychical Research pioneer, and the Victorian search for life after death
Spiritualism and women's writing
review by Tom Ruffles
More useful to literature students than historians of psychical research or Spiritualism
Latest film reviews [ view all ]
Hearing voices, seeing things
review by Michael Griffin
The influential but deceptive role of Persian cinema in Afghanistan
Beginnings and endings
review by Douglas Messerli
The Ghost Writer is visually stunning, excitingly scripted, and heighted by a well-crafted score with near perfect sound.
Trying not to love
review by Douglas Messerli
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is deceptively simple
A matter of conscience
review by Douglas Messerli
A lot happens in the cracks of Porumboiu's Police, adjective
