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  • The Forbidden Gaze @ Compton Verney

    Artemis has always been my classical goddess of choice. Haughty huntress and evasive hauntress of the cypress groves, her feral forest spirit surpasses her Mediterranean …

  • Musée Rodin

    I was not looking forward to The Kiss. Historically, my opinion of Rodin has been ruled by my very bad habit of turning ignorance …

  • Joan Rivers @ Edinburgh Fringe

    If there’s one phrase we Westeners cling to as our civilization slides down the Olympic-sized slalom course to hell, it’s freedom of speech. It doesn’t matter …

  • Merlin

    Geoff of Monmouth? Loudmouth. Chretien de Troyes? Cretin. Malory? Meh.

    For years I have quested through the misty verbal thickets of our eminent Arthurian authorities, …

  • Hedda Gabler @ The Gate

    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion”, wondered Count Tolstoy, no doubt blinking in the cruel glare bouncing off a harlot’s milk-white bosom, “that …

  • Basquiat Strings @ Union Chapel

    Good jazz is like musical metaphor: defamiliarising, juxtaposing, playful, so dense it’s simple, so true it hurts, and so tangible you could reach out and …

  • Engleby

    Truth sounds to me like a fibrous tear; the rip of words stripping us bare. Syntax burrows into self-consciousness’s gossamer gusset to expose the squirming, …