Binding the Beautiful
'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’
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- 3 days ago
- 6 min
Human Wrongs, Animal Rights?
‘We expect extinction after people arrive on an island…survival is the exception.’
- 3 days ago
- 7 min
History as it Should Have Been
Truths needn’t always depend upon facts for their expression’. So says Tom Crewe, in the Afterword to The New Life.
- 6 days ago
- 7 min
Electra Complex
‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'
- Oct 26
- 5 min
Above All Else: Desire in Maggie Millner
Love poetry is a risky business. Maggie Millner in her debut Couplets: A Love Story (2023) seems all too aware of this.
- Oct 21
- 9 min
New Caribbean Realism
The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
- Oct 17
- 4 min
Song of Summer
As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.
- Oct 7
- 5 min
Sharing Space: The House on Via Gemito
SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
- Oct 5
- 7 min
In the Manner of a Genius: Reviewing Courtauld's Forgery Exhibition
PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.
- Apr 17, 2017
- 13 min
The Bedside of the Mind
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 5 min
Deluge of Reality
Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Amazon Studios, 2017 We are inundated with film, television, and visual arts that ‘speak to the moment’. Social and...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 11 min
Signal to the Gatekeepers
Why Does Inequality Matter? T M Scanlon, Oxford University Press, 2018 Global Inequality Branko Milanovic, Harvard University Press, 2016...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 8 min
Behind the Camera
Towards the close of This Is Not a Film (2011), a despondent Jafar Panahi is cajoled by his friend and fellow filmmaker Mojtaba...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 7 min
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...
- Feb 1, 2017
- 9 min
Mary Poppins, Murderer
Lullaby Leïla Slimani, trans. by Sam Taylor, Faber and Faber, 2018 Dans le jardin de l’ogre Leïla Slimani, Gallimard, 2014 When a writer...
- Apr 1, 2016
- 13 min
To Shoot at Mountains
HOPE SUTHERLAND - Min Jin Lee’s new novel traces the nuances of Japanese Korean issues through four generations of family life.
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