book reviews and features
Hisham Matar: A Month in Siena review – memories, framedSunday, 20 October 2019
A Month in Siena is a sweet, short mediation on art, grief, and life. Ostensibly describing the time and... Read more... |
Thomas J Campanella: Brooklyn - The Once and Future City review - out of Manhattan's shadowSunday, 13 October 2019
For visitors to New York, it’s all about Manhattan, its 23 square miles of skyscraper-encrusted granite... Read more... |
Great Women Artists review - the book we have been waiting forSunday, 13 October 2019
Every now and then a book comes out that can change lives. If a survey like this had appeared when I was a student at the Slade, the struggle to make headway as a female artist would have seemed... Read more... |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina ApostolFriday, 11 October 2019
She has more armed guards than she has luggage. She has a sense of purpose even Magsalin admires. She rides along the coast toward a historic place and, by simply stepping on its soil, she will... Read more... |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina ApostolWednesday, 09 October 2019
She had clutched the envelope given by the shy messenger, but she had never opened it. The Intended. True. The message from the director was for her. A joke between... Read more... |
Book extract: Insurrecto by Gina ApostolMonday, 07 October 2019
At first, what puts Magsalin off at the pastry shop is Chiara’s voice. It is nasal, and her monotone, a bored flatness, even in the most interesting parts, keeps Magsalin, or the pastry shop... Read more... |
Zadie Smith: Grand Union review – a roller coaster collectionSunday, 06 October 2019
“Adorable cock, nothing too dramatic, suitable for many situations,” remarks Monica on the penis of her university boyfriend. She is the candid protagonist of ‘Sentimental Education’, the second... Read more... |
Joanna Cannon: Breaking and Mending review - can you feel too much?Sunday, 06 October 2019
Joanna Cannon was a wild card. She left school at 15 with one O-level and after various jobs, including working as a barmaid, she was given a place at... Read more... |
Ben Lerner: The Topeka School review - lessons to be learnedSunday, 06 October 2019
The Topeka School begins with a female listener getting bored of hearing her boyfriend talk. Which did not bode well, as the perspective’s was the boyfriend, and I am a... Read more... |
William Feaver: The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968 review - a testament of friendshipSunday, 29 September 2019
Lucian Freud was never an entirely willing subject, but his remark to William Feaver that his... Read more... |
Pages
latest in today
Four years embracing pandemic, genocide and rapid environmental degradation predicted by Wagner’s grand myth have passed before the Southbank Br...
Edinburgh’s Rezillos were booked to play Middlesbrough’s Rock Garden on Wednesday 14 September 1977. “I Can’t Stand my Baby,” their debut single,...
The last of the old maestros is standing tall. Marco...
Cricket has always been a lens through which to examine the legacy of the British Empire. In the 1930s, the infamous Bodyline series saw the new...
Earthrise, the 1968 Apollo 8 photograph of our small island of a planet, taken from the Moon’s surface, transformed our vision of our...
The thing with Annie Clark, better known as the triple-Grammy-winning iconoclast St Vincent, is that much like an actual saint the multi...
With a troubled gaze and a lived-in face, the portrait of artist Alberto Giacometti on a withdrawn...
The French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca confesses that – like so many classical musicians...