A Basic Mistake
William S. Burroughs: A Life, Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014, 740pp, £30 (hardback) Considering the profligate varieties and…
Unequivocal Gent?
The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Verso Books, 2014, 288pp, £14.99 (hardback) Bart…
Digestible Opera
The success of the Glyndebourne model, eighty years old this season, says something revealing about opera and the British…
The Sanctification of the Audience
Festival O/Modernt, Stockholm, 13-17 June, 2014 Prometheus is the first face of humanism. ‘All arts that mortals have come from…
The State of the Art
Six Bad Poets, Christopher Reid, Faber and Faber, 2013, 88pp, £12.99 (hardback) Oscar and I, Confessions of a Minor Poet,…
Folk Art Made By Real Folk?
British Folk Art Tate Britain 10 June 2014 – 31 August 2014 Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts 9 June…
Power and Greed and Corruptible Seed
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, Oxford, 2013, 992pp, £35 (hardback) Geoffrey Hill famously divides opinion…
The Hanoverian Succession
The Hanoverians on Britain’s Throne 1714-1837 Lower Saxony State Museum and Herrenhausen Palace Museum One Coach and Two Kingdome: Hanover…
Bilbao’s Other Serras
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Since its completion in 1997 the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by Frank…
Independent Metaphysics
All in One Breath, John Burnside, Jonathan Cape, 2014, 96pp, £10 (paperback) Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Faber,…
Here Because We’re Here
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, Margaret MacMillan, Profile Books, 2013,…
Nasty, Brutish and Short
The Dead Zoo, Ciaran Berry, The Gallery Press, 2013, 90pp, £10.50 (paperback) Echo’s Grove: Collected Translations, Derek Mahon, The…
Peter Pan Meets Elvis
I Knew the Bride, Hugo Williams, Faber, 2014, 65pp, £12.99 (hardback) Hugo Williams has been called many things in…
Curious Insulations
The Hotel Oneira, August Kleinzahler, Faber, 2013, 96pp, £12.99, (hardback) Nice Weather, Frederick Seidel, Faber, 2013, 112pp, £14.99, (hardback)…
The Ice in Spice
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England, James Evans, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2013, 400pp, £25…
Public and Private Mythologies
The Fen Dancing, William Bedford, Red Squirrel Press, 2014, 70pp, £7.99 (paperback) Sleeping Keys, Jean Sprackland, Jonathan Cape, 2013,…
Modern Masters
George Orwell: English Rebel, Robert Colls, Oxford University Press, 2013, 356pp, £25 (hardback) A Strong Song Tows Us: The…
The Ship of Theseus
Repetition and Identity by Catherine Pickstock, Oxford University Press, 2013, 211pp, £12.99 (paperback) The teasing paradox that takes its…
Poets’ Tales
Death Comes for the Poets, Matthew Sweeney & John Hartley Williams, Muswell Press, 314pp, £12 (paperback) Foreigners, Drunks and…
One for the Dug-Out
The Kraus Project, Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, 318pp, £18.99, (Hardback) Anyone else made vaguely uneasy by the barrage of…
The Male Nude
The Male Nude: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Paris Academy The Wallace Collection 24 October 2013 – 19 January 2014…
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