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Brian Klaas: Fluke review - why things happen, and can we stop them?Saturday, 27 January 2024
One day in the early 90s I accepted the offer of a lift from a friend to a university open day I hadn’t been planning to go to. I ended up attending that university and there met my wife, and if I... Read more... |
Richard Schoch: Shakespeare's House review - nothing ill in such a templeThursday, 25 January 2024
Richard Schoch, in the subtitle of his new book on Shakespeare’s House, promises something big: “a window onto his life and legacy.” To the disgruntled reader – pushed to the brink... Read more... |
Richard Dorment: Warhol After Warhol review - beyond criticismTuesday, 09 January 2024
2023 was a good year for Andy Warhol post-mortems: after Nicole Flattery’s Nothing Special, after... Read more... |
Best of 2023: BooksSunday, 31 December 2023
From wandering Rachmaninoff to Ulysses tribute, or a poet’s boyhood in Dundee to sleeplessness and arboreal inner lives, our reviewers share their literary picks from 2023. ... Read more... |
First Person: novelist Pip Adam on the sound of injusticeWednesday, 20 December 2023
I know it rattles me, so I try to prepare for it. But I am never fully prepared for the noise. The correctional facilities I have visited over the last 30 years are noisy places. A secure... Read more... |
Angela Leighton: Something, I Forget review - the art of letting goMonday, 18 December 2023
Half way through Something, I Forget, in a poem entitled “Returns”, and subtitled “Invasion of Ukraine,... Read more... |
Mathias Énard: The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild review - a man of infinite deathSaturday, 09 December 2023
"Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief", wrote Amy Levy, "it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for... Read more... |
Anne Michaels: Held review - one story across timeFriday, 24 November 2023
Near the end of My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout’s prize-winning 2016 novel, a creative writing teacher tells Lucy, ‘you will... Read more... |
Ishion Hutchinson: School of Instructions review - learning against estrangementMonday, 20 November 2023
School of Instructions, a book-length poem composed of six sections, is a virtuosic dance between memory... Read more... |
Jesse Darling: Virgins review - going straightThursday, 16 November 2023
Self-described ‘intermittent poet’ and 2023 Turner Prize-nominee Jesse Darling said this in a recent interview for Art Review: ‘I... Read more... |
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