Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
February 5, 2025The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
February 1, 2025Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
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Movies
Family Values
January 31, 2025Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
January 24, 2025The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘A Scandal in Belgravia’
January 6, 2025Sherlock sits humming at the intersection between our sulky obsession with the Victorians, our fascination with...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’
January 2, 2025The whole episode seemed to revolve around questions of perception and memory, and the way recognising...
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Movies & TV
Sherlock Recap: ‘The Reichenbach Fall’
December 29, 2024Now, this is the premise of the episode. What it asks us to accept in order...
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Theatre
Theatre Review: The Duchess of Malfi, the Old Vic, London
December 25, 2024It has an older woman marrying her employee in secret, her incestuously-inclined brother who believes he...
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Great Britain
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
December 24, 2024Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...
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Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 6
December 22, 2024You wonder if you’re hallucinating the whiff of gender politics until Nicola turns up. I love...