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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

Traveler without a backpack

review by Douglas Messerli