Review | Ten Years of Towner Art Gallery
The building itself is an intricate dance of angles, edges and corners; the colours and lines are a call to…
Review | Nan Goldin & Jenny Holzer at Tate Modern
In two exhibitions by Jenny Holzer and Nan Goldin currently on display at the Tate Modern we are presented by…
Review | Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Orange World and Other Stories, Karen Russell, Penguin, pp. 288, £14.99 (hardcover) Karen Russell’s third short story collection Orange World…
Review | Frank Bowling at Tate Britain
Born in 1934 in what was then British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling studied at the Royal College of Art…
Review | Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker
Fabulosa! The Story of Britain’s Secret Gay Language, Paul Baker, Reaktion Books, 2019, pp. 320, £15.99 (Hardcover) Polari is a…
Review | Edvard Munch: Love and Angst at the British Museum
Known for the haunting anguish of The Scream, Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch produced less notorious pieces with a…
Review | Four Quartets at the Barbican
T. S. Eliot was famously wary about artistic interpretations of his poems. In a letter in 1947 to Dale E.…
Review | Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams Biteback Publishing, £25 In the age of the internet it is…
Review | Stanley Kubrick at The Design Museum
Bringing iconic films to the main screen, from Clockwork Orange to The Shining, Stanley Kubrick has contributed significantly to 20th…
Review | Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt
Vivian, Christina Hesselholdt, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp.192, £12.99 (paperback) “What I produce is so good that if I start showing…
Review | Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City
Tales of Two Londons: Stories From A Fractured City, edited by Claire Armitstead, Arcadia Books, 2019, £9.99 It’s Saturday morning…
Review | Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Salt Slow, Julia Armfield, Pan Macmillan, 2019, pp.208, £12.99 (hardback) This electric, enthralling collection of short stories from Julia Armfield…
Review | A Map Towards Fluency & A Few Interiors
A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.112, £8.99 A Few Interiors, Rowland Bagnell, Carcanet Press, 2019, pp.64,…
Review | Days in the Caucasus by Banine & Crossing by Pajtim Statovci
Days in the Caucasus, Banine (translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova), Pushkin Press, 2019, pp. 288 (hardback) Crossing, Pajtim Statovci (translated by…
Review | Lee Krasner at the Barbican
Lee Krasner’s work was central in the proliferation of abstract expressionism in the United States. A new show at the…
Review | My Enemy’s Cherry Tree by Wang Ting-Kuo
We don’t have to start if you’re not ready.’The epigraph on the first page of Wang Ting-Huo’s award-winning novel invites…
Review | Mnemic Symbols by Andrew Hodgson
It’s a familiar, yet uncanny feeling we all know; like waking up in a hotel you’re sure you’ve never stayed…
Review | The Governesses by Anne Serre, tr. by Mark Hutchinson
Briony Willis The Governesses The Governesses, Anne Serre, trans. by Mark Hutchinson, Les Fugitives, 2019, pp. 108, £10.00. (paperback) In…
Review | We’ll Never Have Paris ed. Andrew Gallix
“The failure of the English revolution… is all around us: in the Westminster constitution, in Ireland, and poisoning English attitudes…
Review | Billy Budd at Royal Opera House
For the first time in almost twenty years, Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd returns home to the Royal Opera House in…
Review | Henry Moore: Influences and Influenced at Connaught Brown
Henry Moore has had an insurmountable influence on contemporary art. A new exhibition at Mayfair gallery Connaught Brown — Henry…
Review | Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides & Days of Awe by A. M. Homes
Jeffrey Eugenides’s latest short story collection is packed full of literary treats in case you haven’t read them when they…
Review | Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Out of the Woods, the first book by Luke Turner, begins with the breakdown of a five year relationship with…
Review | Phyllida Barlow at Royal Academy
I’ve collected driftwood from beaches for years. A particularly large piece hangs by the door to my house. Every time…
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