A Mosaic of Memories
War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans trans. David McKay, Harvill Secker, 2016, £8.99 (paperback) ‘People from the age of Europe’s…
Many Realities
Picasso Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 October 2016 – 5 February 2017; Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 17 March –…
Turmoil and Stillness
Paul Nash, Tate Britain, London, until 5 March. When, in his 1943 book British Romantic Artists, John Piper included a…
Talkin’ ’bout my Generation
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, from the Verbund Collection at The Photographers’ Gallery, 7 October to 15 January 2017…
The Man who was Marked for Death
The Rack: The Restored Edition, A.E Ellis, Ashgrove Publishing, 2010, £14.99 (paperback) The Rack is a fugitive classic:…
Modest Modernists
Slakki: New & Neglected Poems, Roy Fisher, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Float, Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape 2016, £16.99 (paperback)…
Oh, Brother
Brother, Matthew Dickman and Michael Dickman, Faber & Faber, 2016, £10.99 (paperback) Syllabus of Errors, Troy Jollimore, Princeton Series…
Haunting Parallels
The Face of the Buddha, William Empson, edited and introduced by Rupert Arrowsmith, Oxford University Press, 2016, 224 pp,…
The Korean Wave
The Story of Hong Gildong, Anonymous, trans. Minsoo Kang, Penguin Classics, 2016, £9.99 (paperback) Thirty minutes north west…
Making Haste Slowly
The Intimate World of Josef Sudek, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 7 June – 25 September 2016 and The…
The Dreary Steeples Emerging Once Again
Churchill and Ireland, Paul Bew, Oxford University Press, 2016, £16.99, (hardback) Gladstone famously declared that he had a…
Art in Majesty
Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power, Alison Cole, Laurence King, 2016, £19.95 (hardcover) There is a perception…
Journeying Souls
The Verandah Poems, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Selected Poems, Michael Symmons Roberts, Cape 2016, £14…
Indians of South Africa
Into That Heaven of Freedom, Mohamed Keshavjee, Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers, 2015, 312pp, £35 (hardback) Indians were in Africa long…
Muslim Arrivals, Old and New
The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London, Nile Green, Princeton University Press, 2015, 416pp,…
A Turning Point and Looking Forward
In 2016 Glyndebourne Festival mounted two new productions, as it usually does: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Berlioz’s…
Breathing the World’s Air
Messages from a Lost World, Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone, Pushkin Press, 2016, 224pp, (hardback) The Storyteller: Tales…
Grinning at his Pomp
In this quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death, it was inevitable that the most keenly anticipated examination of the great…
Hell in Arcadia
Stanley Spencer – Of Angel and Dirt, The Hepworth, Wakefield, until 5 October 2016 ‘To be a great artist one…
The Threepenny Opera
If you put on a production of Romeo and Juliet in Verona, how much does anyone care that the action…
A Bronx Childhood
I return every four or five years to my old neighbourhood and home borough, the Bronx, out of a…
Love and Friendship
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 Edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, Chatto and Windus, 2015,…
An Exploding Goldmine
From Bow to Biennale: Artists of the East London Group, David Buckman, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2012, 382pp, £30 (paperback)…
Here Because We’re Here (again)
Poetry of the Second World War: An International Anthology, edited and introduced by Desmond Graham, Vintage, 2011, 320pp., £12.99…
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