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We Should All Squabble With This Dead Genius
The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman ED. BY IAN KER & TERRANCE MERRIGAN CAMBRIDGE, £17.99 John Henry Newman BY RODERICK STRANGE DARTON, LONGMAN & TODD, £14.95 W e should......
Music
Schola Missa de Angelis ST JAMESʼS CHURCH, SPANISH PLACE W1 The premiere of the glamorous Roxanna Panufnik’s new Mass setting will take place at St James’s, Spanish Place, this......
Cinema
A Room and a Half 12A CERT, 130 MINS A Room and a Half is loosely based on the life of the Russian Jewish poet Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), who was born in Leningrad, expelled......
Theatre
Various SHAKESPEAREʼS GLOBE, UNTIL OCT 3 If you haven’t yet been, you really should go. It’s a unique theatrical experience just being inside the theatre. If you are uncertain......
Television
How to Live a Simple Life BBC TWO, 9PM, FRIDAY, MAY 7 When Peter Owen Jones returned to Britain after filming Around the World in 80 Faiths he had a dismal realisation: his......
Cd
The National: High Violet 4AD, £8.99 Not many people have heard of The National. Which is surprising, given their popularity: yesterday, they played at the Royal Albert Hall.......
Dvd
Nowhere Boy ICON, £10.99 Sam Taylor-Wood’s first featurelength film, about John Lennon’s crucial teenage years and his relationships with his mother and aunt, hit the spot with......
Books In Brief
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (Picador, £7.99) Helen Oyeyemi, a Nigerian-born, Lewisham-raised Catholic, wrote her first novel, The Icarus Girl , in just two weeks......