CRITIQUE
October 2011
Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies have things to teach us about community music
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September 2011
Cynthia Ozick's intricate and artful new novel Foreign Bodies echoes the majesty of Henry James's late period
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July/August 2011
The last of the wartime travel writers, Patrick Leigh Fermor, may have departed the scene, but the genre he graced is still thriving
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June 2011
A working-class Scottish upbringing taught James Macmillan about music and fatherhood. If only more artists would take up the mantle
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