Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Espionage
Television Review: Page Eight on PBS
January 30, 2023British spies these days – the most interesting ones at any rate – are weary, compromised...
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Books
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
January 10, 2023At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
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Blog-Theater
The Woman in White, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
December 30, 2022Collins’ strong suit is suspense tinged with bafflement. When it works, you’re reeling from the last...
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Blog-Theater
The Turn of the Screw at Glyndebourne, Live Streamed via The Guardian
December 30, 2022Glyndebourne: one of the names in the British calendar. Up there with Wimbledon, Henley and other...
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Blog-Theater
Anne Boleyn, at Shakespeare’s Globe, London
December 30, 2022Despite the subject matter, and the evident success of the play, the particular style of performance...
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Blog-Theater
Butley, at the Duchess Theatre, London
December 29, 2022Where West’s incarnation as Detective McNulty was part of a sprawling, panoramic vision of a social...
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Blog-Theater
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
December 28, 2022The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West...
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Books
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
December 23, 2022An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
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Books
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
December 16, 2022But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
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Performing Arts
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
November 21, 2022There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...