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…
A Month by the Sea
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza, Dervla Murphy, Eland Publishing Ltd, 224pp, £16.99 (hardback) When the great…
Duchamp’s Demolition Job
If you go to the Barbican before June 9, you can see some extraordinary things. The most extraordinary of…
The Responsibilities of Historical Fiction
Ned Beauman, The Teleportation Accident, Sceptre, 368pp, £16.99 (hardback) Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies, Fourth Estate, 411pp, £20…
Gunslinger Redux
Edward Dorn: Collected Poems, edited by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Carcanet, 1000pp, £25 (paperback) Westward Haut, Edward Dorn, Etruscan Books,…
Manet and Picasso
Manet: Portraying Life, The Royal Academy 26
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Time of Useful Consciousness
Time of Useful Consciousness, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, New Directions, 96pp, £14.50 (hardback) Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry has outsold his contemporaries. And…
Ancient Flints or Tinned Food
Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier, by Freya Stark, Murray/Tauris, 528pp, £12.99 (paperback) When Dame Freya…
A British Original
Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of one Young British Artist, Outsider artist Joe Machine.
Vessels in White and Black
Gordon Baldwin is one of Britain’s most assured and original artists. He is thought of as a potter, but…
Letter to the Editor
The London Magazine welcomes letters to its editor sent to the editorial office at: 11 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7…
Ever the Diplomat
A brief insight into the memoirs of Sherard Cowper-Coles’s life as a diplomat.
Born in the USA
Stag’s Leap, Sharon Olds, Jonathan Cape, 87pp, £10 (paperback) Nice Weather, Frederick Seidel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 102pp, £14.99…
Travels in Old Asia
Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan, Dervla Murphy, Eland, 272pp, £12.99 (paperback) Travels into Bokhara, Alexander…
A Life of Gifts
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure, by Artemis Cooper, John Murray, 464pp, £25 (hardback) In 1986, Between the Woods and…
The Stuff of Britain: Public and Private on View
The Lost Prince: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart, The National Portrait Gallery, 18 October 2012 – 13 January…
Combing the Waves
The World of Georges Lacombe, Musée Maurice Denis, St. Germain-en-Laye and Musee Lambinet, Versailles, 13 November – 17 February…
The Andrians
A lament for a friend: the Greek painter and shipowner, Leonidas Goulandris.
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