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,…
Review | The Water We Were All Swimming In by Katie da Cunha Lewin
Katie da Cunha Lewin The Water We Were All Swimming In The Inland Sea, Madeleine Watts, Pushkin Press, 2021, 256pp,…
Review | The Dante Project: Trailblazing a Path to Paradise
Trailblazing a Path to Paradise The Dante Project, The Royal Opera House, 14-30 October 2021 Wayne McGregor has never been…
Review | Dispatches from the Cathode Ray by William Brady
William Brady Dispatches from the Cathode Ray The Disconnect, Roisin Kiberd, Serpent’s Tail, 2021, 283pp, £12.99 (paperback) The insidious workings…
Review | Andrew Gallix reviews A Lonely Man by Chris Power & Ghosted: A Love Story by Jenn Ashworth
Andrew Gallix A Lonely Man by Chris Power & Ghosted: A Love Story by Jenn Ashworth A Lonely Man,…
Review | Seed by Joanna Walsh
Dave Butler Seed by Joanna Walsh Seed, Joanna Walsh, No Alibis Press, pp. 220, 2021, £14.99 (hardcover) There’s been a…
Review | A New Look at Adrian Berg by Andrew Lambirth
Andrew Lambirth A New Look at Adrian Berg Adrian Berg: Paintings 1964 – 2010, Frestonian Gallery, 2 Olaf Street, London…
Review | Falling by T.J. Newman
Lucy Morris Falling by T.J. Newman Falling, T.J. Newman, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, pp. 304, 2021, £14.99 (hardcover) As…
Review | Historic Affairs: The Muses of Arthur Bryant by W. Sydney Robinson
Alistair Lexden History and Sex Historic Affairs: The Muses of Sir Arthur Bryant, W. Sydney Robinson, Zuleika Books &…
Review | Isobar Press: A Canvas of Language by Ian Brinton
Ian Brinton Isobar Press: A Canvas of Language In an article for PN Review in December 2014 Paul Rossiter gave…
Review | Giovanni Bellini: An Introduction by Peter Humfrey
The Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini taught his two sons, Giovanni and Gentile, who both surpassed him as artists. Gentile was sent to Constantinople to paint the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, ruler of Venice’s traditional enemy in the eastern Mediterranean. Giovanni (1438/40-1516), who spent his entire life in that watery city, sometimes collaborated on major works with his father and brother […]
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