ALWYN TURNER listens to a great debut by a bucolic British rock band. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Imperial fiction: The Beetle
ALWYN TURNER reads a Victorian tale of gender-fluid horror. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Second Spring
DAN ATKINSON on a novel haunted by memories of the war. Continue reading
Revive 45: January 1974
ALWYN TURNER on the music that took us into the 3-day week in January 1974. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: John Silence
ALWYN TURNER has an appointment with Algernon Blackwood’s psychic doctor to discuss a case of reefer madness. Continue reading
Hazlitt: On the Ignorance of the Learned
William Hazlitt explains why learning is no substitute for life. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Red Crystal
DAN ATKINSON on Clare Francis’s fictionalized version of the Angry Brigade. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Stalky & Co.
ALWYN TURNER on Kipling’s classic tales of schoolboys and soldiers. Continue reading
Halloween hits: Wait a Minute
An Edwardian song by Tom Woottwell, resuscitated for Hallowe’en. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Moonraker
DAN ATKINSON revisits the James Bond of the mid-1950s. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Sir, You Bastard
Some coppers are bent – but they still investigate burglaries. It can only be the 1970s, says DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Alf’s Button
ALWYN TURNER reads a 1919 comedy about the Genie of the Lamp in the trenches of WW1. Continue reading
