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Category: Reviews of the year

2016 – a year of Shakespeare

Fourth and final among these reviews of the year is Shakespeare. 2016 was Shakespeare’s quatercentenary, apart from anything else a great opportunity to use that splendid word – and an annoyance of course when others try to correct it (there is no ‘r’ in quater- – look it up). Specifically, it was four hundred yearsRead More

Luke McKernan December 29, 2016December 10, 2019Leave a comment

2016 – a year’s television

Next up in these reviews of 2016 is television. Television as receivable in the UK is going through a purple patch, thanks largely to the box set phenomenon. There is as much trite tosh on conventional TV as ever there was, and I despair of supposedly informative history programmes which are little more than aRead More

Luke McKernan December 26, 2016December 10, 2019Leave a comment

2016 – a year’s reading

I read a good many books in 2016; I drank a good many cups of coffee while I was doing so. Sometimes other beverages, but mostly coffee. If you just want to see the books rather than read about them, you can go to my Flickr page, The book I’m reading the drink I’m drinking,Read More

Luke McKernan December 23, 2016December 10, 2019Comments (2)

2016 – a year online

It’s the time of year for reviewing the year. As with last year, I’m going to put up a short series of posts on some of the cultural things that distracted my attention from the news, if only for a while (not that I’m actually complaining about the news – for a news archivist theseRead More

Luke McKernan December 21, 2016December 10, 2019Comments (2)

A year online

Next up in these reviews of the year is my year online. Rather than review particular sites or name one as the best, here is a list of some of the sites I discovered and/or enjoyed in 2015 – some new, some not quite so new, all well worth exploring. In alphabetical order… BBC ShakespeareRead More

Luke McKernan December 28, 2015December 10, 2019Leave a comment

A year in film

After television and books, here’s my review of the year in film. As someone who only saw two new films in a cinema this year, it still feels a bit of a cheat to be talking about enjoying film in any other way, but aside from attending a film festival (just the one in 2015)Read More

Luke McKernan December 27, 2015December 10, 2019Leave a comment

A year in books

Next up in this series of reviews of 2015 and those of its cultural treasures that fell my way is reading. I’m always astonished by those sections in ‘quality’ newspapers in which the great, the good, and journalists tell you the best of what they have read during the year. They all seem to haveRead More

Luke McKernan December 22, 2015August 19, 2020Leave a comment

A year in television

It’s that time of the year when you feel compelled to sum up that year. Well, some feel so compelled, and the newspapers and web are full of people’s reviews of 2015 in art, literature, sport, news, whatever. So, setting aside the feeling that years are arbitrary concepts and that the idea of things beginningRead More

Luke McKernan December 21, 2015December 10, 2019Comments (2)
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