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Review | Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

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‘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 | Giovanni Bellini: An Introduction by Peter Humfrey

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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 […]

Review | Kin by Hugh Dunkerley

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Hugh Dunkerley’s second full collection of poems, Kin, presents humane and often moving explorations of life both within and beyond the self. Children, parents and parenthood, evocations of loss, fear, ecological and psychological crisis, and meditations on the interconnectedness of living things are its principal themes. ‘First contact’, the book’s opening poem, celebrates the birth of a child and their emergence from […]

Review | Yes Yes More More by Anna Wood

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By the time the protagonist of the final story in Anna Wood’s new collection has been in New Orleans for a few days she finds herself very pleased with the city’s atmosphere: ‘Annie was bewitched by this easy life, so brilliant and simple and busy.’ This bewitchment is also the prevailing mood of the book. In Yes Yes More More life is quite often easy, if only for a moment, and Wood captures the simple, busy lives of the characters at their most brilliant […]

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