Summer Hours by Alessandra Thom
Thom writes with precision and tenderness in equal measure—a formidable combination. One leaves Summer Hours slightly dazed, as if emerging from someone else's fever dream into the cold Scottish morning.
Arts
La Fonte Musica Brings Monteverdi's Passion to Brighton
BREMF has once again delivered a stellar season of musical events, staying true to its mission of unearthing forgotten treasures, championing emerging talent, and bringing world-class early music performers to Brighton.
Out of the Deep: A Decadent Redemption
This was a journey into the darkest of the night, lit by brilliant wit, fuelled by a perfect bonding of voice and instruments to illuminate this crepuscular programme with a refulgent burning urgency. Vache Baroque offered redemptive bliss, and we left all the better for it.
The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents ★★★★★
This injects a timely splash of colour into a field increasingly given to dreary black-and-white thinking. Essential reading that proves Nature has always been the ultimate advocate for diversity, and has been having a perfectly marvellous time at it.
Queer Georgians: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers and Homemakers By Dr Anthony Delaney ★★★★★
Queer Georgians is both deeply serious scholarship and a celebration of queer resilience. It takes the mythic sheen off our ancestors while making them infinitely more precious—as recognisably queer people who loved, struggled, thrived, and endured. unmistakably queer.
BOOK REVIEW: A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
A Cartography of Queer Becoming: Dylin Hardcastle’s A Language of Limbs
REVIEW: Mannequim @ Brighton Fringe – Actors
Brighton Fringe’s Mannequim is billed as a”ploem” – a mashup of a play and a poem, and it truly is, as much of its speech is cleverly in rhyming couplets. What Ted Gooda and Lexy Medwell have created is the dialogue between lifelong friends Alex and Michaela – Alex a boy desperately wanting to be [