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September 2023

September 14, 2023
Horror and the 1970s (but I repeat myself! badum-tish). A Dark Song: Grueling, unexpected Irish...

August 2019

August 13, 2019
I was in London recently for a family vacation. Lots of new discoveries, including Sue...

November 2017

November 07, 2017
So I commemorated the Fifth of November by attending a reading of Equivocation, Jesuit priest...

October 2017

October 27, 2017
for Modern Age: Alan Moore lives in the past, and who can blame him? The...

March 2017

March 07, 2017
Recently finished Two Lives, which encloses in one volume Evelyn Waugh's biographies of St Edmund...

February 2017

February 28, 2017
at First Things: The most reactionary thing about King Charles III, the modern Shakespeare pastiche...
February 23, 2017
A couple quick hits before we move to our main event, viz. a trip back...
February 02, 2017
I'm telling you, ClerkOfOxford is twitter mvp. Follow her! February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast...

December 2016

December 30, 2016
on the beginning and middle of the meritocratic era: Last fall, Toby Young did something...
December 19, 2016
Or, What did Brexit look like in 1988? Months ago, in the halcyon days of...
December 19, 2016
for the University Bookman. Papist polemics, monks with painted eyelids, "apostolic viragoes" and more! You...

August 2016

August 23, 2016
I just read and loved this stiletto book, which I finally picked up after reading...
August 19, 2016
This is a terrific opening: Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England...

July 2016

July 18, 2016
And it's St Aelred's abbey, too: A hauntingly beautiful set of photos, appearing on DailyMail, shows...
July 11, 2016
by Eleanor Parker aka A Clerk of Oxford. The rest of this post is quite...

May 2016

May 26, 2016
at AmCon: The xkcd cartoon “Logic Boat” shows the familiar problem of the man who...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
relevance! ...McIntosh also takes care to outline the change in attitude toward the poor as...
February 03, 2016
beautiful: February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification, so here's a medieval Candlemas...

December 2015

December 06, 2015
St Nicholas was a very popular saint in the Middle Ages, and with all the...

August 2015

August 04, 2015
I forget where I found this: im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes...

July 2015

July 23, 2015
What I've been watching. The Gallows. Out now. To call it "bog standard" would be...
July 15, 2015
for AmCon: It’s impossible to describe Amy Winehouse’s voice. Crackly, crimson, fractured and sultry: That’s...
July 13, 2015
Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won...
July 07, 2015
First, more like this please: For the first time ever, The Church of Jesus Christ...

May 2015

May 21, 2015
reviewing a new play: “The Hard Problem” is Tom Stoppard’s first work for the stage...

January 2015

January 14, 2015
Would you like a giant Hitchcock head? Would you like two? WOULD YOU LIKE FOUR?...

July 2014

July 10, 2014
origin of the poem, which I hadn't known, etc: ...It isn’t widely realised, though, that...

April 2014

April 27, 2014
So I'm in Sydney, and it's amazing. Beautiful weather (and what I'm gonna call sublime...

March 2014

March 29, 2014
“First let's say morning prayer. But let's say it quietly, in case somebody here has...
March 21, 2014
reporting live from 1984! What everybody forgets about the Smiths is how much fun they...
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