Review | The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny The Pleasures of Queueing Mastodon Publishing 2018 ISBN 978-1-7320091-1-0 In chapter 13 of his very funny and entirely absorbing…
Review | Lee Bul: Crashing at the Hayward Gallery
Lee Bul does not make art that is designed to comfort you. Her latest collection at the Hayward Gallery on…
Review | Fatherland at the Lyric Hammersmith
The coats stand out in the exhilarating performance piece Fatherland now on at the Lyric, Hammersmith after its premiere in…
Review | Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen
The Multiverse ( or theermvsuitle as it says on the cover) is the first poetry collection by Andrew Wynn Owen,…
Review | The Ink Trade by Anthony Burgess, Edited by Will Carr
Even though Burgess was an ‘enormously prolific journalist’, he is dominantly known for his controversial, cult classic A Clockwork…
Review | The Inheritance at The Young Vic
The Inheritance stands at almost seven hours long: Matthew Lopez’s two-part, self-aware epic on the legacy of gay men past-and…
Review | Three Women at The Trafalgar Studios
Katy Brand’s Three Women at the Trafalgar Studios offers a representation of the title across respective and somewhat stereotypical generations. Suzanne, a…
Review | Home by Amanda Berriman
Home is an overwhelming and important, gripping novel about a struggling family seen through the eyes of four-year old daughter, Jesika. Amanda…
Review | Carcanet New Poetries VII: Book Launch at the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, 7pm. Wine glasses clatter as they are placed on the floor, animated conversation fills the…
Review | Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy at the Tate Modern
If you’ve ever doubted the sheer scale of Picasso’s productivity, a visit to the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition will convince…
Review | What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
The joy of an episodic form is it can be appreciated multiple ways. You do not need to agree with…
Review | Known Unknowns at The Saatchi Gallery
In the current exhibit at the Saatchi Gallery, Known Unknowns, you are not meant to know of the artists. If…
Review | Black Book by Gideon Rubin at The Freud Museum
The Freud Museum, in Freud’s old house, is a five-minute walk from Finchley Road tube station, away from the main…
Review | ‘My Generation’ – The 1960s Through the Eyes of Michael Caine
My Generation Presented by Michael Caine On cinematic release from 14th March 2018 As the sun rises with a vivid…
Review | Andreas Gursky at Hayward Gallery
The advent of photography had a huge effect on how we see the world. The first photographs, though often posed,…
Review | The Only Story by Julian Barnes
The Only Story by Julian Barnes Readers who were a little disappointed by Barnes’s last political fiction The Noise of…
Review | Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel by Neil Roberts
Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel Neil Roberts, Clemson University Press As the subtitle to this literary…
Review | Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
Dick the Bad: History’s Most Famous Murder Suspect Richard III: Brother, Protector, King – by Chris Skidmore Weidenfeld & Nicolson,…
Review | Rainsongs, by Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard’s Rainsongs has a unique and beautiful emotive quality that shines through its delicately constructed prose in a love-letter to…
Julie Cope’s Naked Lunch
‘God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.’ Said Nietzsche, so instead of looking to religion…
Review | Fahrelnissa Zeid at the Tate Modern
‘When I’m painting, I am always aware of a kind of communion with all living things, I mean with…
Review | Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from the 1930s
It is hard for those brought up in a world of gender fluidity, with debates about who has the…
Review | Melancholia – A Sebald Variation at Somerset House
Descend the vertiginous spiral staircase to the Inigo Rooms of Somerset House in London between September 21st and December…
Review | Calder on Paper: 1960 – 1976 at the Saatchi Gallery
SALON, Saatchi Gallery’s commercial exhibition space, launched earlier this year aiming to present the work of leading international artists…
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