Tom Birchenough
Friday, 14 November 2025
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Bernard Hughes
Saturday, 01 November 2025
Robin Holloway is a composer and, until his retirement in 2011, don at Cambridge, where he taught many of the leading British composers of the last half-century. He has also always written on...
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John Carvill
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Thomas Pynchon is having a moment. Paul Thomas Anderson’s second Pynchon adaptation, One Battle After Another (loosely based on Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland), is a...
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Bernard Hughes
Thursday, 02 October 2025
Into the Groove is Justin Lewis’s follow-up to 2023’s Don’t Stop the Music, in which he traced 40 years of pop history by offering bite-sized facts for every day from January 1...
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Claudia Bull
Friday, 26 September 2025
Joanna Pocock’s second full-length book, Greyhound, tells the story of a single journey made and remade. In 2006, after the death of her sister and several miscarriages, Pocock travelled...
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Helen Tyson
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Writing in her diary just over 100 years ago on 19th June 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote: “In this book I...
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Claudia Bull
Tuesday, 16 September 2025
How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by Bloomsbury, Frances Wilson points out that biography was...
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Jon Turney
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Composers and musicians explore acoustic space. Generally, they have got by with...
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Hugh Barnes
Saturday, 02 August 2025
Many readers and writers think of epistolary novels as old-fashioned, just as letter writing itself can seem a bit quaint nowadays. The genre became popular during the 18th and 19...
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Jack Barron
Friday, 04 July 2025
I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s Manifeste du surréalisme, such...
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