Author: Desmond Bullen
Book Review: Alan Turing’s Manchester by Jonathan Swinton
On the face of it, Manchester’s claims to Alan Turing are slender.
Read the full story..Review: Joy for Ever, The Whitworth, Manchester
It’s easy to have the last word when you’re arguing with a dead man. Or so you might think.
Read the full story..Book Review: Peach by Wayne Barton
Typically, Fanny Price is the least well-loved of Austen’s heroines.
Read the full story..Review: International Women’s Day Event, Manchester Central Library
The clamour of the world scrolls incessantly, regurgitating received wisdoms about Brexit, Fleabag and Neverland.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Octagon Theatre, University Of Bolton Stadium
Much like Dorothy, Bolton Octagon has been cast adrift from its moorings, although in a manner less dramatic than cyclonic updraft.
Read the full story..Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter
Appearances can be deceptive.
Read the full story..Book Review: These Northern Types, edited by Oli Bentley
Ambitious in the best sense of the word, These Northern Types is nothing less than a frequently discursive disquisition on the nature of Northernness as unapologetically contrary as the North itself.
Read the full story..Review – Martin Parr: Return to Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
Martin Parr has the subtle knack of locating the delightful in the mundane, the unlikely in the familiar, inviting us to look twice where we might long since have failed to notice.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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