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Review: ‘Brave New World’
Four Seven Two’s production of Brave New World begins and ends with a tree. In the beginning the tree is illuminated — the white silhouetted branches provide a visual centre to the set, and a canvas...
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The Long View: The Known God and the Forgotten God
When the Viking Thorolf arrived in Iceland in the ninth century, he saw pure beauty. The primordial landscape was, in his eyes, an image of paradise. He and his family settled on the Snaefellsnes...
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Earlier this year, The Sun ran a story about a new edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with the headline “FLAKENSTEINS: Snowflake students claim Frankenstein’s monster was ‘misunderstood’ — and is...
View ArticleThe Long View: Why liberals should abandon patriotism
If you’re reading this in 2018, you probably don’t need reminding of the dangers of national pride. Countries around the world seem to be succumbing to the temptations of a divisive, vainglorious, and...
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The Long View: Nobody Expects an Accountable Inquisition
12 May 1299. The day of the sentencing. Bompietro of Giovanni and Giuliano of Salimbene, both pursemakers from the parish of San Martino dell-Aposa, are publicly condemned for the crime of heresy. They...
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The Long View: Reconsidering the Confessions
I hesitate before I answer one particular question that I am regularly asked: what do you write? I write memoir. My reticence is indirectly related to the idea that memoir ranks quite low in the...
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Review: ‘Borrowed Time’
From a career perspective, the middle initial is the would-be sci-fi writer’s greatest asset. Especially if you also hope to maintain a career in the Literary Sphere, a good middle initial can...
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Review: ‘This Is The End Of The Story’
‘Narrative cannot order experience, but only register something about the quality of experience.’ A tale of multi-layered, multi-faceted maturation, Jan Fortune’s This Is The End Of The Story...
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The Long View: The World in the Cloister
At the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2017, author Zadie Smith sparked off a round of internet criticism by suggesting that makeup and attention to appearance were a ‘waste of time’ for young girls...
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Review: ‘La Traviata’
Besotted from first glance, the untameable Alfredo Germont (Alexander Gebhard) says of his love for Violetta Valéry (Seljan Nasibli) that it is “both cross and delight of the heart”—a telling turn of...
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