Natalie is the editor of My London Your London, an independent cultural guide featuring theatre, gallery and museum reviews, and also blogs at Philobiblon, on history, culture, Green politics and all things feminist. She's the founder of the Carnival of Feminists, and Managing Editor and Books Editor on Blogcritics.
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Theatre Review (London): Her Naked Skin at the National
The truly memorable scenes are those at the heart of the suffragette struggle.
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Theater Review (London): Cosi at the White Bear, Kennington
If any of the currently dark and silent West End theatres are looking for a transfer show, they could do a lot worse.
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Book Review: Blood River - A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Takes you gently through the 20th-century horror ride that is the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Book Review: The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Goodwin not only knows 19th-century Istanbul intimately, but he's got a close eye for detail and a fine line in elaborate plotting.
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Book Review: Blood on the Wood and Dead Man Riding, Nell Bray Mysteries by Gillian Linscott
I'll be visiting with Nell again, even if I will be frustrated by the social restrictions that also frustrate her.
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Theater Review (London): I Saw Myself
Sleev is super-intelligent, manipulative, and magnificent. With a different set of genitals she'd have made a superb king.
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Theater Review (London): Days of Significance by the RSC at the Tricycle
The subject is Iraq, and the "heroes" are the achingly young, ill-educated lads who wind up in the British army ranks.
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Theater Review (London): Believe at the New End
If you're a man with a guilty conscience about how you've treated a woman, you should go - the nightmares should be good for your soul.
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Theater Review (London): Walking on Water at the White Bear, Kennington
Superb acting and neat writing can't entirely save this depressing story we've seen many times before.
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Book Review: Cleaning Up - How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived by Tania Glyde
A personal account fails to explain Britain's binge drinking "epidemic".
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