Review | Melancholy Recognitions: Two French Novels in Translation by Liam Bishop
Liam Bishop Melancholy Recognitions: Two French Novels in Translation Satisfaction | Nina Bouraoui (translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins) | Canterbury:…
Review | Drawing Blood: Why T.J. Clark Still Thinks Cézanne Can Save Us by Adam Heardman
Adam Heardman Drawing Blood: Why T.J. Clark Still Thinks Cézanne Can Save Us If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and…
Essay | Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer by Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Passing the Times with Rosemary Mayer Rosemary Mayer: Ways of Attaching was shown at Spike Island, Bristol, between…
Review | An A-Z of Jonathan Meades by Daniel Janes
Daniel Janes An A-Z of Jonathan Meades Pedro & Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020, Jonathan Meades, Unbound, 2021, pp.983,…
Review | Will to Power by Harry Cochrane
Harry Cochrane Will To Power The Written World, Kevin Power, Liliput Press, 2022, 256pp, £13.00 (paperback) ‘[M]ost books are bad.…
Review | Back to Earth by Iona Durno
Iona Durno Back to Earth Climate change is everywhere, literally and metaphorically. Whether it’s reports on how the UK’s recent…
Review | My Name is Andrea by Joe Bond
Joe Bond My Name is Andrea My Name is Andrea, directed by Pratibha Parmar, had its UK Premiere at Sheffield…
Review | Maggie Brookes: Acts of Love and War by Holly Howitt
Holly Howitt Acts of Love and War by Maggie Brookes Maggie Brookes, Acts of Love and War (Century, hardback) In…
Review | Flocking to Paris in the Roaring Twenties by Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny Flocking to Paris in the Roaring Twenties There’s always something deeply exciting about an exhibition devoted exclusively…
Review | Karina Lickorish Quinn: The Dust Never Settles by Ellen Jones
Ellen Jones The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn The Dust Never Settles by Karina Lickorish Quinn, Oneworld,…
Review | Ben Turnbull’s ‘I Don’t Like Sundays’
Adrian Burnham Ben Turnbull’s ‘I Don’t Like Sundays’ In a collaboration with Bristol creative collective ART808, British artist Ben…
Review | Demon Daze: Kawanabe Kyōsai by James Riding
James Riding Demon Daze: Kawanabe Kyōsai It was a British artist named Mortimer Menpes who gave us the most…
Review | The Meaning of Sex by Stuart Walton
Stuart Walton The Meaning of Sex Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning, Carrie Jenkins, Polity, pp.200, 2022, £14.99…
Review | Jonas Čeika and synthetic philosophy by Josh McLoughlin
Josh McLoughlin Jonas Čeika and synthetic philosophy How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for…
Review | Keith Ridgway’s A Shock and Leon Craig’s Parallel Hells by Hallam Bullock
Hallam Bullock Keith Ridgway’s A Shock and Leon Craig’s Parallel Hells In his seventh book, A Shock, Keith Ridgway…
Review | Words Fail Me by Christiana Spens
Christiana Spens Words Fail Me: Violence, instability, and the limits of language in Aftermath by Preti Taneja (And Other Stories)…
Review | Injustice and Violence by Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers Injustice and Violence A Set of Six, Joseph Conrad (Ed. Allan Simmons et al), Cambridge UP, 2021, 517…
Review | Too Much Too Young: Jolyon Fenwick at Shapero Rare Books
Review Too Much Too Young: Jolyon Fenwick at Shapero Rare Books Taking centre stage at Jolyon Fenwick’s latest solo exhibition…
Essay | Remembering Joan: Why Her Writing is Poetry by Francesca Kritikos
Francesca Kritikos Remembering Joan: Why Her Writing is Poetry Poet Francesca Kritikos looks back at Joan Didion’s life and legacy,…
Review | The Saint of Painting: Georges Braques – The Poetry of Things
The Saint of Painting by Celia Bailey Georges Braque – The Poetry of Things Bernard Jacobson Gallery 4th November –…
Review | Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
‘Many commentators have described Small Things Like These, with some justification, as a parable about kindness, or redemption, or moral bravery. I prefer to read it as an investigation into the mechanics of complicity.’
David Butler reviews Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.
Review | Mohammad Ghazali: Persepolis: 2560-2580 by Celia Bailey
A review of Mohammad Ghazali: Persepolis: 2560-2580 by Celia Bailey If history is often a fiction ‘written by the victors’,…
Review | The Art of Fiction by Chloë Ashby
Chloë Ashby The Art of Fiction Second Place, Rachel Cusk, Faber, 2021, 224pp, £14.99 (hardcover) Painting Time, Maylis de Kerangal…
Review | A Fish in the Stream by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Katie da Cunha Lewin A Fish in the Stream The Years, Annie Ernaux, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018, 240pp, £12.99 (paperback) Happening,…
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