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The champion of Arabia never got to write the book, but gave Roland Phillips a title for his, a valuable but flawed study of a man whose actions and fate continue to ripple through British-Irish relations more than a century after his execution in 1916.Casement gazes from a cover that splices two portraits into a discomfiting whole, preparing the reader for immersion in a life that crossed sexual, geographic and ideological boundaries, and a journey that made him a martyr for some, a traitor for others.Just as Casement…

The world may be perpetually teetering on the brink of doom, but at least we have Aziraphale and Crowley coming back to help us cope. Season two of Prime Video’s Good Omens, co-created by Neil Gaiman and starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant, drops in July—and the first trailer is here now.Good Omens Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime VideoBilled as “a mystery that takes us from before the Beginning, to biblical times, grave robbing in Victorian Edinburgh, the Blitz of 1940s England, all the way through to modern…

The third album since Shirley Collins’s renaissance at 81 turns out to be the finest. After a 38-year silence, the recovery of the English folk singer’s vocal powers was at first tentative, but here she sails through an array of traditional song with all the brio an 87-year-old might muster. Her voice is not the joyous thing it was – to remind us of her sprightly younger years, a live 1980 performance is included – but its weathered tones come with unforced gravitas. Collins has always maintained that a song is more…