Stories By Jem Bloomfield
Theatre
Theatre Review: Three Days in May, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England
October 5, 2025Clarke certainly made good on his obligations. He barked, he grunted, he rumbled, and, once you...
Espionage
Television Review: Page Eight on PBS
September 26, 2025British spies these days – the most interesting ones at any rate – are weary, compromised...
Literary Themes
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Theatre
The Woman in White, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
September 4, 2025Collins’ strong suit is suspense tinged with bafflement. When it works, you’re reeling from the last...
Music
The Turn of the Screw at Glyndebourne, Live Streamed via The Guardian
September 3, 2025Glyndebourne: one of the names in the British calendar. Up there with Wimbledon, Henley and other...
Theatre
Anne Boleyn, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
September 3, 2025Despite the subject matter, and the evident success of the play, the particular style of performance...
Theatre
Butley, at the Duchess Theatre, London
September 1, 2025Where West’s incarnation as Detective McNulty was part of a sprawling, panoramic vision of a social...
Theatre
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
September 1, 2025The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
August 19, 2025But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
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