Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Theatre
Butley, at the Duchess Theatre, London
May 7, 2024Where West’s incarnation as Detective McNulty was part of a sprawling, panoramic vision of a social...
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Espionage
The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London
May 6, 2024The 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
May 3, 2024An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
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Sociology
Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
April 26, 2024But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap...
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Theatre
Theatre Review: Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London
April 1, 2024There are some terrific “There’s something in the sack!” or “What’s that climbing down the wall?”...
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Opera
Opera Review: Anna Nicole at the Royal Opera House, London
March 29, 2024Anna Nicole zipped herself up in a bodybag, surrounded by a crowd of camera-headed creatures which...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
March 23, 2024Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
March 17, 2024Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
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Theatre
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
March 2, 2024Pop 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
February 17, 2024The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
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