Carry That Weight
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth, Bloomsbury, 2014, 544pp, £25 (hardback) Major modern poets are often saddled…
God’s Lonely Men: The Two De Niros
The actor Robert De Niro established his cinematic legacy playing taciturn characters whose individual standards, expectations, and inarticulateness place…
The Magic Realism of Julio Larraz
Julio Larraz Rules of Engagement ContiniArtUK Gallery 3 October – 24 November 2014 Julio Larraz, who comes from Cuba,…
Master Portrait Painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni Royal Academy 25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 The gift of the true master portrait…
Festung Europa Hitler’s Atlantic Wall in Photographs
The Atlantic Wall – Hitler’s Coastal Fortress from the Arctic to the Pyrenees, Ianthe Ruthven with a foreword by…
Pleasing People Seriously
Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Royal Albert Hall, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 3.30pm, with Evelina Dobračeva (soprano), Stephan…
The Poetry and The Pity
Some Desperate Glory, Max Egremont, Picador, 2014, 336pp, £20 (hardback) Horses Between Our Legs, Patricia McCarthy, Agenda Editions, 2014,…
Art for Art’s Sake
A Victorian Obsession Leighton House Museum 14 November 2014 – 29 March 2015 A Victorian Obsession, an exhibition at…
A Stagnant Art World
Post Pop: East Meets West, The Saatchi Gallery, 26 November 2014 – 23 February 2015 Sturtevant: Double Trouble, The…
Aiming a Wild Kick
Roger Hilton Jonathan Clark Fine Art (by appointment) 18 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ <info@jcfa.co.uk> Why do some artists…
This is What a Feminist Looks Like
Allen Jones RA Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London 13 November 2014 – 25 January 2015 Exhibition curator…
Thrum in Tandem
An Aviary of Small Birds, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Carcanet, 2014, 88pp, £9.95 (paperback) The Weather Wheel, Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet,…
The Pope Gives His Approval
Summers always have to come to an end. As the children went back to their respective schools, I realised…
Marilynne Robinson: The Gilead Novels
With Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and Lila (2014) Marilynne Robinson has produced a body of work of a quality…
Mailer on Hemingway and Lawrence
In the New York Times of November 28, 2014 Dwight Garner called Norman Mailer’s letters ‘mostly low-wattage, a rolling…
Glatt’s Ronda
Justin Glatt. Remember him? Probably not, but, for a while, he was a name, not mega, as they say,…
Death’s Dream Kingdom
Fire Songs, David Harsent, Faber and Faber, 2014, 80pp, £12.99 (hardback) Sailing the Forest – Selected Poems, Robin Robertson,…
Zhivago and Ulysses
The Most Dangerous Book, Kevin Birmingham, Head of Zeus, 2014, 432pp, £20 (hardback) The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and…
Free Radical
Egon Schiele – The Radical Nude The Courtauld Gallery, London 23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015 Vienna has…
Growing Pains
It is a question I have, from time to time, asked myself. If I had had the sort of…
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