The Real Thing
Derek Hill: A Centenary Exhibition, The Redfern Gallery, London, 9 – 16 May 2016 In 1961 Bryan Robertson, the innovative…
From a Hotel Lobby
The Hotel Years, Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, Granta, 2016, 288pp, £16.99 (hardback) For Joseph Roth, the…
Hell is Other Irish People
The Dirty Dust, Mártín Ó’Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley, Yale University Press, 2015, 328pp., £16.99 (hardcover) ‘Unless the clay…
The Abstract and the Concrete
The operas of Pietro Mascagni have enjoyed a revival in recent years at the festivals of Britain and Ireland.…
A Precious and Fragile Gift
States of Mind: Tracing the Edges of Consciousness, Wellcome Collection, London, until 16 October 2016 ‘. . . the unconscious…
Visions of Genius
Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius, Het Noord-Brabants Museum, s’ Hertogenbosch, until 8 May 2016 Five hundred years on from…
All the Russias
Russia And The Arts, The National Gallery, London, until 26 June 2016 The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Russia And The…
Harmonious Collision
Les Impressionnistes en Normandie, Musée Jacquemart-André, until 25 July Chefs-d’oeuvre de Budapest, Musée du Luxembourg, until 10 July The Musée…
Political Interventions
Graham Greene: Political Writer, Michael G. Brennan, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan, 208pp, £58 (hardcover) In an interview with the Evening Standard…
Guilt-Ridden Voyage
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, Frances Wilson, Bloomsbury, 397pp, 2016, £25 (hardcover) His life was full of…
Real Texts versus the Duller Page
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: An Original-Spelling Text, ed. Paul Hammond, Oxford University Press, 2016, 494pp, £19.99 (paperback) John Donne, ed. Janel…
Twilight of the Idols
Inside the head of Bruno Schulz, by Maxim Biller translated by Anthea Bell, Pushkin Press, 2015, 128 pp. £10 Summer…
Under the Stars
Federico Beltran Masses: Under the Stars, Stair Sainty Gallery, London, February 10 – March 24, 2016 ‘I arrive in London…
Raw Colour in Dulwich
Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup, Dulwich Picture Gallery, until 15 May 2016 I wished . . . to wash myself in…
Libertarian Disposition
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918, D. J. Taylor, Chatto & Windus, 528pp, 2016, £25 (hardcover)…
The Potency of Myth
James Connolly: My Search for the Man, the Myth and His Legacy by Sean O’Callaghan, Century, 336pp, £18.99 (hardback) Sean…
Resonant Quality
Openwork, Poetry and Prose by André du Bouchet, translated by Paul Auster & Hoyt Rogers, Yale University Press, 368pp,…
Art in the Kitchen Sink
John Bratby: Everything but the Kitchen Sink, including the Kitchen Sink, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, until 17th April, 2016 The past…
Horticultural Flamboyance
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 10th April 2016 ‘Painting the Modern Garden’…
Scarifying Confrontation: Pericles at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Pericles isn’t the easiest of Shakespeare’s plays either to like as literature or to enjoy on stage. There are…
Auerbach’s Intimitable Magic
When Frank Auerbach first came to public notice – emerged rather than burst – in the 1950s he was…
The Noise of Time
In keeping with the current vogue for entwining fact and fiction, Julian Barnes’s latest novel is a fictionalised account…
Icons of Desire
Maria Loh ‘examines the subgenre of artist portraiture’ in the 16th and 17th centuries, and defines portraits as ‘the…
Women at War
In April last year a woman holding a camera was shot dead at a check- point in Afghanistan; the…
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