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The Dazzling Science Of Medieval Churchmen
God’s Philosophers BY JAMES HANNAM ICON BOOKS, £20 J ames Hannam begins his ambitious survey of medieval science (subtitled How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern......
How To Rescue Education From Secularism
Beauty for Truth’s Sake BY STRATFORD CALDECOTT BRAZO PRESS, £12.99 ‘ A merely subjective creativity is no match for the vast compass of the cosmos and for the message of beauty.......
Books In Brief
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Souvenir Press, £12) One of the most unusual and daring feats of investigative journalism was perpetrated in October 1959 by John Howard......
Music
The Adventures of Mr Broucek OPERA NORTH, TOURING, FROM OCT 10 Opera North collaborates with Scottish Opera for Janaček’s rarely staged comic opera about a man (Mr Brouček, or......
Cinema
Up U CERT, 96 MINS Pixar’s latest animation has delighted critics in America. It centres on a 78-year-old misanthrope who travels to South America (his lifelong dream) by tying......
The Fastest Clock In The Universe
HAMPSTEAD THEATRE Forget the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir. Philip Ridley’s black comedy won the Evening Standard Award for the most promising writer in......
How A Choir Works
BBC TWO, 11.20PM, WEDNESDAY, OCT 14 Conductor and choirmaster Gareth Malone, who created the awardwinning documentary The Choir , in which he taught people how to sing in a......
Sufjan Stevens: The Bqe
ROUGH TRADE, £21.99, CD+DVD Sufjan Stevens once announced that he was going to record an album for every state in America. But after two glorious albums, Michigan and Illinois ,......
Synecdoche, New York
REVOLVER, £17.99 Synecdoche, New York marks Charlie Kaufman’s debut as director rather than screenwriter. Caden Cotard is a provincial theatre director in a town in upstate New......