Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt ‘Cheerily, then, as one making teatime conversation, she asked “do you yourself ever think of…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £18.99 Reworked from an e-serial, Atwood’s latest novel is as captivating and humorous…
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen likes big books. Each one of his critically acclaimed works are weighty door-stoppers but their tangible size in…
In the Belly of a Beast – The Serpentine Pavilion
On the 25th June The Serpentine Pavilion unveiled its much-anticipated 15th annual commission, this time appointed to young Spanish architects José Selgas…
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation…
Words and Pictures
Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape, 2015, 275 pp. £16.99 (paperback) Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on…
Slavic Ritual
The Little Town Where Time Stood Still, Bohumil Hrabal, trans. James Naughton, NYRB Classics, 2015, 320pp, £10.99 (paperback) …
No Filler, Only Killer
Where Have You Been? Selected Essays, Michael Hofmann, Faber & Faber, 2015, 304pp, £30 (hardback) The poet and…
The Cornucopias of Our Time
Eduardo Paolozzi, Judith Collins, Lund Humphries, 2014, 304pp, £45, 290 x 245 mm (hardback) Front and back cover showing BASH,…
Two Jokers
The Golden Age of Smoking, John Hartley Williams, Shoestring Press, 2014, 79pp, £10 (paperback) Twentyone Men and a Ghost,…
Bodies Beautiful and Music of Time
Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art The British Museum 26 March 2015 – 5 July 2015 Panathenaia…
Esquissateurs
Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market National Gallery 4 March–31 May 2015 Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel…
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The First Bad Man by Miranda July Cheryl Glickman — isolated, alone and with no true friends to speak of…
Waldegrave’s Weather
A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir, William Waldegrave, Constable & Robinson, 2015, 320pp, £20 (hardback) The political memoir…
Classical Innovator
Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint The Wallace Collection 12 March 2015 – 7 June 2015 The most important image in…
On the Scales
The Disappeared, Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury, 2015, 292pp, £11.99 (paperback) Roger Scruton is employing ever more subtle means in his…
Poetry and Terror
The publication of Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems in two volumes by Faber lends support to the convenient idea that his is…
Diffuse and Disconnected
A Woman Without a Country, Eavan Boland, Carcanet, 2014, £9.95 (paperback) Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck, Carcanet, 2014,…
Transactions
Transactions Gillian Ayres: New Paintings and Prints, The Alan Cristea Gallery 13 April 2015 – 30th May 2015 Giacometti…
The Labyrinth and the Fountain
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray, 2014, 200pp, £20 (hardback) In…
Sacred Hearts and Shadows
The Water Stealer, Maurice Riordan, Faber and Faber, 2015, 64pp, £9.99 (paperback) Gangs of Shadow, Michael O’Neill, Arc Publications,…
Finding a Language
Archipelago, Antonella Anedda, translated by Jamie McKendrick, Bloodaxe Books, 2014, 160pp, £12 (paperback) From Elsewhere, Ciaran Carson, The Gallery…
Elegy for the Passenger Pigeon
Some Letters Never Sent, Neil Curry, Enitharmon Press, 2014, 79pp, £9.99 (paperback) William Cowper: A Revaluation, Neil Curry, Greenwich…
Slow Realism
Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford, Bloomsbury, 2014, 256pp, £18.99 (hardback) Richard Ford’s early attempts at novel…
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