Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Performing Arts
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
August 13, 2020Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
July 30, 2020The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
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History
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
July 3, 2020Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
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Crime Fiction
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
June 14, 2020She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
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Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
June 10, 2020Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Great Britain
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
June 5, 2020Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
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Crime Fiction
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
May 31, 2020Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
May 28, 2020There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
May 28, 2020Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
May 22, 2020The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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