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Animated Machines

  Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler trans. Shaun Whiteside, Allen Lane, £8.99 (paperback) When the Nazi Wehrmacht finally…

New England

  From neon-lit cheap motels you hear the plainsong of the highway – the dogs and wolves of the hills,…

A Mosaic of Memories

  War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans trans. David McKay, Harvill Secker, 2016, £8.99 (paperback) ‘People from the age of Europe’s…

My London

  Julian Mash is the author of Portobello Road: Lives of a Neighbourhood, published by Frances Lincoln. He is the…

Many Realities

  Picasso Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 October 2016 – 5 February 2017; Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 17 March –…

October Wood

  Some niche: rested in planks with its own electric fingers hovering light to become our hands, caressing a mahogany…

Turmoil and Stillness

  Paul Nash, Tate Britain, London, until 5 March. When, in his 1943 book British Romantic Artists, John Piper included a…

Still

  Sometimes I feel you at my breast, warm against my skin, breathe in that familiar milkiness as I kiss…

Hemingway and the Gangsters

  Hemingway believed that insults could be crushed and arguments settled, gangland fashion, with menacing threats or physical violence. His…

Talkin’ ’bout my Generation

  Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, from the Verbund Collection at The Photographers’ Gallery, 7 October to 15 January 2017…

The Man who was Marked for Death

  The Rack: The Restored Edition, A.E Ellis, Ashgrove Publishing, 2010, £14.99 (paperback)   The Rack is a fugitive classic:…

Modest Modernists

  Slakki: New & Neglected Poems, Roy Fisher, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Float, Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape 2016, £16.99 (paperback)…

Stories from the Camino

  Communing on the Way On an icy ridge during a storm, a faithless priest cancelled mass. When a devout…

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