Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
Blu-Ray/DVD Review: The Wicker Tree
November 22, 2025The rites themselves have changed in practice if not in spirit, and the movie rekindles enough...
-
I Say! Hammer Plans A Woman In Black Sequel?
November 14, 2025The Hammer Studio has announced a sequel, but what are we to expect in revisiting the...
-
John Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
November 14, 2025Constable's approach to landscape painting, however, was far more than an exercise in nostalgia. Instead, he...
Book Review: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
November 3, 2025It was at Oxford University that Burne-Jones found divine beauty and William Morris. They shared a...
Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
October 16, 2025Most of the actual “spy stuff” that goes on is hidden even from the audience, and...
May Day! May Day! It’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree
October 9, 2025Early press for The Wicker Tree has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it...
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum
September 19, 2025Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of...
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Trending
