A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk I was reading Orhan Pamuk’s Snow in London recently, when a Scottish man stopped me…
The Lobster
The Lobster If you were to be turned into an animal what animal would you choose? This question remains at…
Twofold Bay
1930 Then the curved tooth snaps with the tug of rope in Old Tom’s jaw as the Davidson’s whaling boat…
An excerpt from Beyond Elsewhere
From Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, forthcoming from White Pine Press in March 2016, translated from the French by…
Installing Time
One More Time, Cornelia Parker at St Pancras International (until November 2015 ) Train travellers at St Pancras station in…
Difficult Cup
after Wu Hao’s Duke Cups The china cup is frilled at the rim like tired lace and all over…
Van Gogh: Art and Suicide
The peripatetic life of Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the son of a Dutch Protestant minister, was an endless series of…
The Quest for Meaning
Shadows Waltz Haltingly, Alan Morrison, Lapwing Press, 2015, 84pp, £10 (paperback) The Beautiful Librarians, Sean O’Brien, Picador, 2015, 64pp, £9.99…
The Kid from Kogarah Grows Up
Latest Readings, Clive James, Yale University Press, 2015, 192pp, £12.99 (hardcover) When Australian polymath Clive James was diagnosed with terminal…
No Longer Impregnable
When the Facts Change, Essays 1995-2010, Tony Judt, edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans, William Heinemann, 2015, £25 (hardcover) Ours is…
Becoming Who We Are: Concluding Thoughts
There are great advantages in for once removing ourselves distinctly from our time and letting ourselves be driven far from…
My London
Henry Eliot is a writer. Since 2011 he has run the map-magazine Curiocity with Matt Lloyd-Rose, available in bookshops across…
Metaphors of a Troubled Mind
Lucky to be an Artist, Unity Spencer, Unicorn Press, 2015, 256 pp. £24 (hardcover) The title Unity Spencer has chosen…
China’s Swinburne: the Enigma of Shao Xunmei’s Life and Art
In both China and the West, very little has been written on Shao Xunmei. Googling his name leads to a…
Jane Austen, Illustrated
Picturing Jane Austen (1775–1817) has never been easier. With her image set to grace the ten-pound note in 2017, millions…
Creachann/Scallop
Creachann Na samhraidhean ud, choisicheadh Dad sinn sios dhan eighre ann an Àrnol: sgrùdamaid sgoid ’s propach ’s canastairean…
The Children of a Demon-Queen
Amidst all the ethnic strife of Sri Lanka, it’s easy to forget that, hidden away in the interior, there remains…
Girl in the Blue Pool
I am years back and full of echoes. Chlorine, urine, raucous cuff of voices on broken surface. A boy…
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