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A Riddle Dissolved

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  Woyzeck on the Highveld (adapted from Woyzeck by Georg Büchner), Handspring Puppet Company, toured 6 September-12 November 2011 Woyzeck…

Forces To Be Reckoned With

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  The Storm House, Tim Liardet, Carcanet, 66pp, £9.95 (paperback) November, Sean O’Brien, Picador, 84pp, £8.99 (paperback) In his essay,…

Building History

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  Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, Iain Sinclair, Hamish Hamilton, 432pp, £20 (hardback) Since being banned from…

Half a Mirror

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  Drawing in Ash, William Stone, Salt Publishing, 112pp, £9.99 (paperback) The Game of Bear, Peter Bennet, Flambard Press, 72pp,…

Has Houellebecq Lost La Haine?

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  The Map and the Territory, Michel Houellebecq (translated by Gavin Bowd), William Heinemann, 304pp, £17.99 (hardback) Michel Houellebecq’s personal…

Italophilia

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  The Pursuit of Italy, David Gilmour, Allen Lane, 447pp, £25 (hardback) Italy is glory, art, music, poetry and a…

The Life of the City

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  Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 696pp, £25 (hardback) The striking cover of this book reproduces…

Dead Parrot

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  The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World Tate Britain, 14 June – 4 September 2011 A question that must…

A Tale of Two Fairs

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  Art Antiques London, Kensington Gardens, 9 – 15 June 2011 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, 7 June –…

Napoleon’s Teddy Bear

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  Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made, Alison Castle (ed.), Taschen, 1112pp, £44.99 (hardback) When we were thirteen…

Among the Lost People

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  Train to Budapest, Dacia Maraini, Arcadia Books, 400pp, £11.99 (paperback) ‘To be a survivor it’s useful not to be…

No Hooting or Fuss

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Peter Carpenter Bernard Spencer: Complete Poetry, edited by Peter Robinson, Bloodaxe Books, 384pp, £15 (paperback) In 1974, in an introduction…

Singing the Body Electra

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Erik Martiny One Secret Thing, Sharon Olds, Jonathan Cape, 96pp, £10 (paperback) The most recurrent criticism of Sharon Olds’s work…

An Echo from Iraq

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  When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-21, Charles Townshend, Faber and…
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