Review | Xeixa: Fourteen Catalan Poets
Xeixa: Fourteen Catalan Poets Tupelo Press, 2018, edited by Marlon L. Fick and Francisca Esteve The news in recent months…
Review | Rough Trade Books | Series 3
The recently-launched Rough Trade Books imprint has been releasing pamphlets at a prolific rate since the summer of last year,…
Review | The Snowman at The Peacock Theatre
This Christmas, join the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in their magical rendition of Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman. Christmas would not be…
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can…
Review | Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
An unmitigated treat if you love conceptual art installations and sculptures, SPACE SHIFTERS features twenty artists exploring our perception of…
Review | Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Opera House
The operatic Christmas mainstay Hansel and Gretel, by Humperdinck, makes a long awaited return to the Royal Opera House; it’s…
Review | Charlotte Prodger and Forensic Architecture — The Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain
In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquére Roseanne Stone discusses how our…
Review | Krzysztof Gil: Welcome to the Country Where the Gypsy has been Hunted at l’étrangère
On view at l’étrangère gallery in East London is the first ever UK solo exhibition by the Polish Roma artist…
Review | Shitstorm by Fernando Sdrigotti
Shitstorm, Fernando Sdrigotti, Open Pen, 2018, £4.99 Among four equally alluring others, Open Pen’s new series of “novelettes” features Fernando…
Review | Summer and Smoke at The Duke of York’s Theatre
Briony Willis Summer & Smoke A poetic vision of human nature and our existential struggle to forge the middle ground…
Review | Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon (translated by Cole Swensen), Les Fugitives, 2018, pp.115, £12.00 Now, Now, Louison, originally published in French…
Review | Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings — Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The first thing that you see as you enter the Virginia Woolf exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum is a photograph…
Review | Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays, Marci Vogel, Melville House, November 2018 Award-winning writer, poet and translator Marci Vogel is the author…
Review | Glad I Did It — Christina Reihill at Bermondsey Project Space
Made up of three L-shaped levels, Christina Reihill’s Glad I did it is an invitation into the mind and last…
Review | Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Exposure, Olivia Sudjic, Pensinsula Press, 2018, pp. 127, £6 Exposure, the new book by Olivia Sudjic, elegantly dissects the multi-layered…
Review | Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts
Oceania is the first ever major survey of Oceanic art to be held in the UK and is pioneering in its…
Review | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War at the British Library
Anglo-Saxon England, which lasted from the 5th to the 11th centuries, a span two-hundred years longer than the Roman occupation,…
Review | Theatre | The Unreturning at the Everyman Theatre
Frantic Assembly’s latest project “The Unreturning” arrives at Theatre Royal Stratford East in January 2019. This time, their celebrated physicality…
Review | Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
Green Noise, Jean Sprackland, Jonathan Cape, 2018, 64pp, £10.00 With Green Noise, the fifth collection from Jean Sprackland, she attunes us to…
Review | Medusa at Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Briony Willis Medusa Through beautifully poetic movements and engaging drama, Jasmin Vardimon has created a unique choreographic voice that enables…
Review | Christian Marclay — The Clock at Tate Modern
Christian Marclay Blavatnik Building, level 2 Tate Modern Until 20th January 2019 “Time present and time past”, as T.S. Eliot…
Review | Limbo by Dan Fox
Following on from his brilliant attack on intellectual conservatism in 2016’s Pretentiousness: Why It Matters, Dan Fox’s new long-form essay Limbo…
Review | The Book of Joan by Lidia Yukavitch | H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
H(a)ppy, Nicola Barker, William Heinemann, 2017 The Book of Joan, Lidia Yuknavitch, Canongate, 2018 In Nicola Barker’s H(a)ppy and Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book…
Review | Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s long-awaited second novel “Normal People” burst onto the scene last month, and has been making waves in the…
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