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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 10, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 8 2024): The latest issue features ‘Reverie and revolution’ – Ian Penman on Surrealism; Crime fiction gets political; Scorsese’s English masters, women pianists and more….

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @pawboy2 on André Breton and Surrealism; @dlbirch1 on Barbara Comyns; @sophieolive on art and motherhood; @RohanMaitzen on Sarah Perry; Ritchie Robertson on equality; @drflorawillson on women pianists; @rinireg on student protests – and more pic.twitter.com/DpnzlOfKGy
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) May 8, 2024

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Classical Music: Top New Releases – May 2024

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Brilliant Classics (May 2, 2024): Top new classical music releases May 2024:

Martucci Collection: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mar…
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato [DeLuxe Edition]: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Can…
Hertel: Oboe Concertos: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Her…
Mysliveček: Complete Keyboard Works: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mys…
Benjamin: Complete Piano Works: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/Benjamin…
Beethoven: Con alcune licenze: https://PianoClassics.lnk.to/Beethove…
Franco: Music for Guitar: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Fra…
Massonneau: 3 Duos Concertante Op.9: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mas…
Vallet: Lute Music: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Val…
J.S. Bach à la française: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Bac…
Tiersen: Island (LP-BioVinyl): https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Tie…

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – May 3, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (May 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Making it New’ – A.E. Stallings on the innovative classicism of Anne Carson’s poetry; Salman Rushdie’s memoir of survival; Politics and performance and more…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @ae_stallings on Anne Carson; @LawDavF on Nato; @OldFortunatus on Richard Sennett; Peter Kemp on Salman Rushdie; @digkabri on Linear B; poems by Carson, @MissLizBerry and Yehuda Amichai (tr. Robert Alter) – and more pic.twitter.com/BMOo6lGs4N
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) May 1, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 26, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 24, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Mormon Conquest’ – Seth Perry on a people of the book; Is ‘green growth’ a mirage; Virginia Woolf’s rural retreat; China’s Shakespeare…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Seth Perry on Mormonism; @xlorentzen on the Democrats; @SansyG on Tommy Orange; Kit Fan on Du Fu; @nheller on the Buddha; @PD_Smith on dust; @bjkingape on animal communication; a new poem by Michael Longley – and more pic.twitter.com/K6UiyhyXHR
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 24, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 19, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A Heavy Reckoning’ – Shakespeare and War’; Judgment at Tokyo; Iranian women in revolt; Memoirs of a sociopath and A Chilean masterpiece…

This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Andrew Hadfield, @OldFortunatus, Laurie Maguire and @BruceABoucher on Shakespeare; Rana Mitter on the Tokyo tribunal; Neguin Yavari on Iranian protests; Michèle Roberts on Édouard Louis; M. C. on @gaystheword – and more pic.twitter.com/EK5nPwYtBD
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 17, 2024

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 12, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Man Into Marble’ – Corin Throsby and Kathryn Sutherland on the real Byron; Anthony Burgess on music; Left in charge at the palazzo; Revolutionary Russia; A shorter Long Day’s Journey and What is lyric verse?…

This week’s @TheTLS marks the bicentenary of Byron’s death, including two newly published letters. Also: Stephen Lovell on revolutionary Russia; me on Long Day’s Journey into Night; @Tiny_Camels on Jennifer Croft; @akennedysmith on 1950s Venice; @rinireg on eclipses – and more pic.twitter.com/nx02ouQKFO
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) April 10, 2024

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The New Criterion – April 2024 Arts/Culture Preview

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The New Criterion – The April 2024 issue features:

Poetry a special section
Black poetry by William Logan
Shakespeare’s words by Amit Majmudar
Bachmann: the unspeakable spoken by Peter Filkins
The new & the old by Katie Hartsock
The answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quignard

New translations by Ryan Choi, Frederick Amrine, Patrick Whalen & Beverley Bie Brahic

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Classical: The Mela Guitar Quartet – “Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture” (2024)

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Omni Foundation (March 3, 2024): The Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts presents the Mēla Guitar Quartet performing the Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture by Mikhail Glinka from inside the West Dean Estate in the United Kingdom. This video is presented by the Omni Foundation’s Omni On-Location series, Concerts from Historic Sites.