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…
Let the Mountain Sing its Own Song
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer Robert Burns,…
The Invisibility of Beauty
The 56th Biennale di Venezia (various artists and venues until 22 November 2015) Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited (New Edition),…
Growing Up a Flaneur
As a boy I wandered through the streets, stores and parks of my East Bronx neighbourhood avidly noticing everything that…
Gobha nan Glasan/The Locksmith
Gobha nan Glasan Tha eòlas ann am buth gobha nan glasan air Bread St o Theodore à Samos, o…
Love and Judgement
L’Amore dei Tre Re, Italo Montemezzi, Opera Holland Park, July 22nd – August 1st. In early 1939, with the threat…
Edmund Spenser’s Pictures
In forrein costes, men sayd, was plenty: And so there is, but all of miserye. I dempt there much to…
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Paterson is at his best when writing about heartbreak. “The Six,” this reviewer’s favourite piece in 40 Sonnets, speaks…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood In 2009, Ursula K. Le Guin caused something of a stir in the…
The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz
The New World Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz Granta, £12.99 (paperback) The New World opens grippingly by immersing the reader…
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt ‘Cheerily, then, as one making teatime conversation, she asked “do you yourself ever think of…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £18.99 Reworked from an e-serial, Atwood’s latest novel is as captivating and humorous…
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen likes big books. Each one of his critically acclaimed works are weighty door-stoppers but their tangible size in…
An Interview with Calisi Press
In recent months Ferrante Fever has been catching. If you haven’t already heard of the anonymous Italian female author who’s…
Refugees by Manash Bhattacharjee
Refugees I know a thing or two about refugees – As a child I heard father say, “We were sleeping…
Ai Weiwei – A Man in the Way
Ai Weiwei, The Royal Academy of Arts, 19 September – 13 December 2015 I’m writing this in the run-up to…
In the Belly of a Beast – The Serpentine Pavilion
On the 25th June The Serpentine Pavilion unveiled its much-anticipated 15th annual commission, this time appointed to young Spanish architects José Selgas…
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation…
Independence Day by Manash Bhattacharjee
Independence Day (15th August, 1947) The day had turned out to be A feast for vultures Every Muslim and Hindu…
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ – Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone
This year London houses a major retrospective of the work of Barbara Hepworth alongside her friend and contemporary Henry Moore…
Pterodactyl
We sail, loose-kneed over murky jade water towards Terrapin Point. Our blood-red ponchos cling to our bare arms. You…
The Story Behind Storysongs
The highly regarded poetry publisher Agenda has, exceptionally, produced a bilingual double-fronted hardback book of animal whimsies for children,…
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