'The unisexual roster saves us from diatribes about the iniquity of the male gaze, and in any case the female gaze is capable of retaliating by aestheticising and eroticising the bodies of men.'

Peter Conrad on @markcousinsfilm's new documentary.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/lets-get-this-show-on-the-road

Dethier 'writes about mud buildings without the telltale modulations other critics use to distance so-called vernacular construction from the canon of high architecture.'

Building with earth may be the future, says @PhinHarper.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/build-brown-go-green

'Their legacy is tenacious. Throughout Europe, it lingers in the placement of borders, in patterns of confessional belief, in styles of architecture, even in ideas of national and supranational sovereignty.'

John Adamson on the hardy Habsburgs.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/born-to-marry