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...The Vixen by Francine Prose, HarperCollins £20/$25.99, 336 pages Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba, W&N £20, 304 pages/St Martin’s Press $28.99, 304 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of...
...Jim Steinman has long been the Wagner of rock’n’roll, and now at last he presents his Ring in the way it always cried out to be seen, in a proper opera house and everything....
...The beach is adjacent to a busy road lined with fast-food restaurants bearing names such as Steak ’n’ Shake, and billboard adverts promising “The biggest paint party on the island”....
...One of Mr Pfeiffer’s fingers apparently slipped from the “b” on his keyboard to the adjacent “n”, transforming a tweet about a “bigger factor” in politics into a racial slur....
...David Hare’s Teeth ’n’ Smiles.”...
...“The Valley of Unrest”, from last year's concept album about Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, was hectoring and tuneless....
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