Russell Beale
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”