An excerpt from Beyond Elsewhere
From Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, forthcoming from White Pine Press in March 2016, translated from the French by…
Twofold Bay
1930 Then the curved tooth snaps with the tug of rope in Old Tom’s jaw as the Davidson’s whaling boat…
Installing Time
One More Time, Cornelia Parker at St Pancras International (until November 2015 ) Train travellers at St Pancras station in…
Difficult Cup
after Wu Hao’s Duke Cups The china cup is frilled at the rim like tired lace and all over…
Fading Ad
I hadn’t understood how grief could be desperate praise when the new growth – and the bread-and-butter May and frog-shaped…
Van Gogh: Art and Suicide
The peripatetic life of Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the son of a Dutch Protestant minister, was an endless series of…
The Quest for Meaning
Shadows Waltz Haltingly, Alan Morrison, Lapwing Press, 2015, 84pp, £10 (paperback) The Beautiful Librarians, Sean O’Brien, Picador, 2015, 64pp, £9.99…
The Kid from Kogarah Grows Up
Latest Readings, Clive James, Yale University Press, 2015, 192pp, £12.99 (hardcover) When Australian polymath Clive James was diagnosed with terminal…
No Longer Impregnable
When the Facts Change, Essays 1995-2010, Tony Judt, edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans, William Heinemann, 2015, £25 (hardcover) Ours is…
My London
Henry Eliot is a writer. Since 2011 he has run the map-magazine Curiocity with Matt Lloyd-Rose, available in bookshops across…
Becoming Who We Are: Concluding Thoughts
There are great advantages in for once removing ourselves distinctly from our time and letting ourselves be driven far from…
Metaphors of a Troubled Mind
Lucky to be an Artist, Unity Spencer, Unicorn Press, 2015, 256 pp. £24 (hardcover) The title Unity Spencer has chosen…
China’s Swinburne: the Enigma of Shao Xunmei’s Life and Art
In both China and the West, very little has been written on Shao Xunmei. Googling his name leads to a…
Jane Austen, Illustrated
Picturing Jane Austen (1775–1817) has never been easier. With her image set to grace the ten-pound note in 2017, millions…
The Children of a Demon-Queen
Amidst all the ethnic strife of Sri Lanka, it’s easy to forget that, hidden away in the interior, there remains…
Creachann/Scallop
Creachann Na samhraidhean ud, choisicheadh Dad sinn sios dhan eighre ann an Àrnol: sgrùdamaid sgoid ’s propach ’s canastairean…
Girl in the Blue Pool
I am years back and full of echoes. Chlorine, urine, raucous cuff of voices on broken surface. A boy…
Let the Mountain Sing its Own Song
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer Robert Burns,…
The Invisibility of Beauty
The 56th Biennale di Venezia (various artists and venues until 22 November 2015) Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited (New Edition),…
Gobha nan Glasan/The Locksmith
Gobha nan Glasan Tha eòlas ann am buth gobha nan glasan air Bread St o Theodore à Samos, o…
The Canal
We used to live near the canal; not on it, I wouldn’t have cared for that, the water looked so…
Growing Up a Flaneur
As a boy I wandered through the streets, stores and parks of my East Bronx neighbourhood avidly noticing everything that…
Love and Judgement
L’Amore dei Tre Re, Italo Montemezzi, Opera Holland Park, July 22nd – August 1st. In early 1939, with the threat…
Edmund Spenser’s Pictures
In forrein costes, men sayd, was plenty: And so there is, but all of miserye. I dempt there much to…
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