Contributor’s Picks – June/July 2018
Introducing Contributor’s Picks! Recommendations for the very best in arts, culture and literature from the writers for The London Magazine…
André Malraux and the Transformation of History
André Malraux’s The Walnut Trees of Altenburg (Lausanne, 1943), an underrated masterpiece of the twentieth century, is a difficult and…
Angels of Death
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, Ed. Gary Garrels and others, with a preface [by the popular…
Malraux, Camus and the Nobel Prize by Jeffrey Meyers
André Malraux (1901-76) was born in a bourgeois quarter of Paris, Albert Camus (1913-60) in a working-class district in the…
Hemingway and the Gangsters
Hemingway believed that insults could be crushed and arguments settled, gangland fashion, with menacing threats or physical violence. His…
Self-Portraits: Exposure and Revelation
The modern self-portrait began in Renaissance Florence when artists first asserted their identity, while playing a cameo part, by…
T. E. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence & Lady Chatterley’s Lover
In an enigmatic episode in Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Connie tells her father that before the Great War her lover…
The Wind in the Willows: An Absolute Necessity to Move
Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind and the Willows, though written for children, is a subtle and sophisticated work. The animals’…
Mailer on Hemingway and Lawrence
In the New York Times of November 28, 2014 Dwight Garner called Norman Mailer’s letters ‘mostly low-wattage, a rolling…
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