Stuart Houghton
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Bach’s The Art of Fugue, Angela Hewitt, Wigmore Hall – the m...
How do they do it? Bach and Angela Hewitt, I mean, transfixing and...
Bob Woodward: Rage review - terror and tyranny in the White...
“Build the wall!” exhorted Trump, at rally after rally back in the days when we’d all acknowledged his moral repugnancy but still believed he...
Ottessa Moshfegh: Death in Her Hands review - a case of murd...
Death in Her Hands was a forgotten manuscript, the product of a...
Sudhir Hazareesingh: Black Spartacus review – the life, and...
The former slave, and coachman on a sugar plantation, began one of his early public proclamations in a typically defiant vein: “I am Toussaint...
Ian Williams: Reproduction review - a dazzling kaleidoscope...
Ian Williams’s writing is always in motion. For his 2012 poetry...
Academy of St Martin in the Fields review - from solo medita...
Clearly it takes peculiar circumstances for some of us to hear the Academy of St Martin in the Fields within its eponymous church – that’s a first...
Emma Cline: Daddy review - scintillating short stories by th...
The Girls, Emma Cline’s acclaimed debut novel of 2016, was billed as a story based on the Manson murders. But in fact, like some of the...
Album: Groove Armada - Edge of the Horizon
Alongside Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada were one of the last big acts to blossom from the...
Bernard Haitink: The Enigmatic Maestro, BBC Two review - say...
Before his retirement last summer at the age of 90, Bernard Haitink worked magic on the podium, no one is in any doubt about that. Lining up one...