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Discarded Realities
Oliver Eagleton - the centenary of the October Revolution, two writers try to capture its frenzied atmosphere.
Nov 23, 201715 min read
Dead Modern
CLARISSA MAYHEW - Architectural fashions that come and go with correspondent ideologies, but so too do humane housing policies.
Nov 23, 20177 min read
'Object' Oppenheim
This story starts with a cliché, in a bohemian café in Paris with Picasso, his lover Dora Maar and Méret Oppenheim drinking tea.
Nov 17, 20178 min read
Humanity 2.0
DANIEL SUTTON - Why are there still some qualities that elude the computer's reach?
Jun 21, 20177 min read
A Soul Is a Strange Factory
GABY-MANCEY JONES - Raymond Roussel's bizarre inventions capture the imagination and unlock the inner child.
Jun 12, 20179 min read
Ian McEwan's Brave New World
HUGO MURPHY - Ian McEwan promises to unify science and literature with human morality in his fictional worlds.
Jun 12, 201711 min read
Locked Up Literature
CLARISSA MAYHEW - The incarcerated compose their own histories, and in doing so reflect the present and rewrite the future ...
Jun 12, 20178 min read
On the Edge of Wonder
CHRISTOPHER PAGE - In the wake of the US withdrawal from the Paris Accords, we must appreciate the fragments of nature at our fringes.
Jun 8, 20177 min read
The Burden of Retelling
KATIE MENNIS -Colm Tóibín's new novel and Helen Dumore's latest poetry collection revamp ancient stories.
Jun 8, 201710 min read
Liberalism Realised?
OLIVER BEALBY-WRIGHT - Liberalism is under examination like never before. Three new authors enter the fray.
Jun 8, 201710 min read
Where Words Fail
ELLIE DUNCAN - In a Hungarian dystopia beset by revolution, language stops working and alienation follows.
Jun 8, 20179 min read
Something Amis
ETHAN CROFT - Why does Martin Amis' "Lionel Asbo" fall so short in its parody of class and England?
Jun 8, 20177 min read
Making Luther Great Again?
BENN SHERIDAN - 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his Theses to a door, new biographies the myth and the man.
Jun 8, 20178 min read
Eloquent Sex
Fondue by A K Blakemore, Offord Road Books, July 2018. ‘If you are a woman, writing about your experience of being a woman, you are part...
May 6, 20177 min read
Where to Draw the Line?
Turn left out of Charlton Athletic Football Ground, walk 100 yards past redbrick terraced housing, and you’ll find yourself outside 67...
May 1, 201710 min read
Big Clunking Fist
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown, Penguin 2017 Shortly after John Smith’s death, Gordon Brown discovered his was one of those professions...
May 1, 20177 min read
Not-so Sad Girl
Hera Lindsay Bird Hera Lindsay Bird, Penguin, 2017 Pamper Me to Hell & Back Hera Lindsay Bird, Smith|Doorstop Books, 2018 ‘It’s halfway...
Apr 17, 201713 min read
An Antidote to Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan Peterson, Penguin, 2018 I first saw Jordan Peterson last summer on a provincial train...
Apr 17, 201712 min read
Refabricating the Past
Charlotte Salomon: ‘Life? or Theatre?’ A Selection of 450 Gouaches by Judith Belinfante and Evelyn Benesch, Taschen, November 2017...
Apr 17, 20178 min read
Too Pure an Air for a Slave
Black Tudors Miranda Kaufmann, Oneworld, 2017 Black and British David Olusoga, Pan Macmillan, 2016 The year is 1511. King Henry VIII and...
Apr 17, 201715 min read
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