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The Rational Case For The Protection Of Animals
BY ANDREW LINZEY OUP, £16.99 I t is so easy for the supercilious smile and patronising nod to be bestowed on those silly, sentimental people who think that small, furry......
A Catholic Misfit Adrift In New Orleans
CLASSIC CATHOLIC BOOK A Confederacy of Dunces BY JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE PENGUIN , £8.99 J ohn Kennedy Toole wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the Sixties but could not get anyone to......
Music
La Bohème ROH, COVENT GARDEN, UNTIL JANUARY 11 John Copley’s revival of La Bohème is a Covent Garden favourite. This winter Rebecca Evans and Hibla Gerzmava, the Russian soprano......
Cinema
Sherlock Holmes 12A CERT, 128 MINS After so many flops it’s a surprise that Guy Ritchie was allowed to make any more films, let alone one starring Robert Downey Jr as the famous......
Theatre
Red DONMAR WAREHOUSE Fifty years ago abstract expressionist Mark Rothko was commissioned to paint four murals for the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. John Logan’s play......
Television
Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral BBC ONE, 11.50PM, DECEMBER 24 For those wishing to tune into the Christmas celebrations in the capital or are unable to make it to......
Cd
MacMillan: The Sacrifice CHANDOS, £16.25 The Sacrifice , premiered by the Welsh National Opera in 2007, is James MacMillan’s second opera. It draws on the Mabinogion , a Welsh......
Books In Brief
Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World edited by Ronda Kasl (Yale University Press, £45) The catalogue of an exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Sacred......
Dvd
The Hurt Locker LIONSGATE, £11.99 Kathryn Bigelow’s story of a bomb explosive team is generally viewed as the best of the Iraq war films, and has won more garlands than a......