‘The Blue Rode Well in the Corn’
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, Roland Blythe, Penguin, 287pp, £9.99, (paperback) Mrs. Sullivan, fifty-five, headmistress, feels that ‘people…
The Sound of Painting
Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure The National Gallery 26 June 2013 – 8 September 2013…
Charming Baker – Guerrilla Art *Free
Edward Lucie-Smith writing on East London artist Charming Baker and Guerrilla art
London Calling! *Free
Proms 2013, Royal Albert Hall 12 July – 7 September With this year’s world-famous Promenade Concerts now in full…
The Legend of Livingstone
This year we commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the legendary explorer Dr. David Livingstone, one…
Concrete Overcoat
I was told Ronnie and Reggie used to start from the feet and work their way up, bulges rising…
Ustad Saaznawaz *Free
for Abir Bashir Bazaz As he weaves the ghazal the earth turns into water, gods dissolve in his tongue…
All the Wonders
His phone goes. The deep, quickening notes of the Jaws theme. Which means it’s his ex-wife. Not his joke.…
Reading Lessons in the Brilliant Sunshine
As the cantabile lyrics,of eternal prophets lull the moon’s breath from the tide, And your eyes soak up calligraphic…
Be Still the River
Nine days after burying their mother in a grove of milkweed and cypress, Ingrid took her sister, Baya, away…
Early Arrival
She came a mite early by the calendar, fuelling gossip and glee in spiteful eyes, an autumn surprise for…
At White Cube
The Norfolk beaches of my childhood must have been a state of grace. Within that monochrome and windy bowl…
The Life of the Author: Roland Barthes’s China Tour
Travels in China, by Roland Barthes, translated by Andrew Brown, edited by Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Polity, 196pp, £16.99 (hardback)…
Holland House
Holland House: A History of London’s Most Celebrated Salon, Linda Kelly, IB Tauris, 288pp, £25 (hardback) Nearly two centuries…
Tarantula’s Web
Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T. S. Eliot and their Circle, John Smart, Michael Russell, 343pp, £19.95 (hardback) How unpleasant…
The Infatuations
The Infatuations, Javier Marías, Hamish Hamilton, 352pp, £18.99 (hardback) Early into The Infatuations, Javier Marías’s long awaited new novel,…
Altered States
The Sins of the Leopard, James Brookes, Salt Publishing, 70pp, £12.95 (hardback) Harm’s Way, Conor Carville, Dedalus Press, 76pp,…
The Return of a King
The Return of a King, William Dalrymple, Bloomsbury, 608pp, £25 (hardback) In the summer of 1990, at the end…
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