Anxious Essayists
Essayism, Brian Dillon, Fitzcaraldo Editions, June 2017, pp. 228, £10.99 (paperback) I begin by making a list: Style – Hybrid…
Angels of Death
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, Ed. Gary Garrels and others, with a preface [by the popular…
Meandering Through London
The Language of Cities, Deyan Sudjic, Allen Lane, July 2017, pp. 240, £9.99 (Paperback) One of several running jokes…
Shame, Error and Guilt
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-four Attempts, Brian Blanchfield, Picador, August 2017, pp. 256, £9.99 (Paperback) There are changing tides…
Building With Light
Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909), Julius Bryant, published by Lund Humphries in association…
The Deep Heart’s Core
Philip Guston and the The Poets, Gallerie Dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice, 10 May 2017 – 3 September 2017 Among…
A Study in Blackness
The Royal Opera, London, Spring/Summer 2017 Giuseppe Verdi, Otello, Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlo (1886 version), Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger…
It’s All In The Paint
Wayne Thiebaud, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, 24 May – 2 July 2017 Prunella Clough, Annely Juda, London, 24…
Serious Play
Say Something Back, Denise Riley, Picador, May 2016, pp. 96, £9.99 (Paperback) Commotion of the Birds, John Ashberry, Carcanet,…
‘sawed railings’: Poetic and Cultural Identities
Scaffolding, Eléna Rivera, Princeton University Press, 2017, £14.95 (paperback) Playing the Octopus, Mary O’Malley, Carcanet, 2016, £9.99 (paperback) Eighty-two sonnets,…
Paintscapes
Maggi Hambling: Edge, Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1 March – 13 April 2017 One of this spring’s most rewarding…
The Sheer Fun of Power
Odessa Stories, Isaac Babel, translated by Boris Dralyuk, Pushkin Press, October 2016, pp. 224, £12.00 (paperback) ‘Babel speaks in…
In A Raw State
Crude, Sally O’Reilly, Eros Press, October 2016, £12.00 (paperback) There are no talking telescreens or robot slaves in the fictive…
Hardwrought Works
War Music, Christopher Logue, Faber, 2015, edited by Christopher Reid, 341pp £20 (hardback) Spills, Angela Leighton, Carcanet, 2016, 183pp, £12.99…
A Child of the Sun
Katherine Mansfield and Psychology, eds. Clare Hanson, Gerri Kimber, Todd Martin, Edinburgh University Press, September 2016, 224 pp, £70.00 (hardback) Katherine…
Links in the Chain
Kandinsky, Marc and Der Blaue Reiter, Edited by Ulf Kuster for Fondaton Beyeler Beyeler Stiftung, Wyss Foundation 2016 It…
A Trinidadian Friendship
Morning, Paramin, Derek Walcott and Peter Doig, Faber & Faber, November 2016, 116 pp, £22.00 (hardback) This is a lovely,…
Looking at Michael Andrews
Michael Andrews: Earth Air Fire, Gagosian Gallery, 20 Grosvenor Hill, London, until 25 March 2017 The School of London has…
The Past Beneath Our Feet
September in the Rain by Peter Robinson, Holland House, September 2016, 280pp, £11.99 (paperback) Collected Poems by Peter Robinson, Shearsman…
Unhappy Families
Revolution: Russian Art 1917 – 1932, Royal Academy of Arts, until 17th April 2017 Remake everything. Organise it so as…
The Barriers of Love
Letters to Akhmatova, Patricia McCarthy, Waterloo Press /Agenda Poetry, August 2015, £9.00 (paperback) How does a contemporary poet write a…
Changing of the Guard
Royal Opera House, Winter/Spring 2017 Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Giuseppe Verdi, Il trovatore, Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur Kasper…
Edward Ardizzone Wins his Place
The occasion of both a major exhibition in a public museum and the publication of a monograph devoted to…
Animated Machines
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler trans. Shaun Whiteside, Allen Lane, £8.99 (paperback) When the Nazi Wehrmacht finally…
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