Terry Castle · If everybody had a Wadley: Joe Carstairs, the fastest woman on water · LRB 5 March 1998 lrb.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lrb.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ruth Franklin reviews three novels that variously reimagine “Frankenstein” and the life of its author, Mary Shelley, in light of historical and contemporary conceptions of gender: Anne Eekhout’s “Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein,” C. E. McGill’s “Our Hideous Progeny,” and Louisa Hall’s “Reproduction.”
In David Alden’s production of Peter Grimes, the mob assembles before the music has even started – silhouetted at the back, muttering and menacing. Ah, Britten’s mob: simultaneously the source of some of the most electrifying, elemental choral writing since Mussorgsky and a licence for British directors to indulge in premium-strength snobbery. Fully endorsed by
Out On Film in Review – Part Two thegavoice.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thegavoice.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.