Miranda France sits crushed in the back of a crowded taxi, on her way to teach at a residential writing school, and realises she’s bungled this job from the off. She’s well aware that a tutor should always arrive nice and early, not buried under a suitcase alongside the students. ‘To start building the persona […]
With unflagging zeal and zest, Peter Kemp delves into the awe-inspiring immensity of novel production over the last fifty years or so, mainly in Britain but with glances at English-language fiction from elsewhere. In his introduction he gamely embraces the ‘shimmer of miscellaneousness’ which characterises the genre, listing aesthetic productions of all kinds, sizes and […]
Ann Wroe is probably best known as the wide-ranging obituaries editor of The Economist. Fragments from the weekly obituaries page make an appearance in Lifescapes, but this work, extremely compact compared with her previous books (she has written biographies of Shelley and Pontius Pilate, among others), is far more than an exploration of the personalities […]
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Congratulations to @HanKangOfficial, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024.
We've lifted the paywall on Joanna Kavenna's review of The White Book from November 2017.
Joanna Kavenna - Carte Blanche
Joanna Kavenna: Carte Blanche - The White Book by Han Kang (Translated by Deborah Smith)
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Few surveys of British art exist. Those that do have given disproportionate space to recent trends and neglected the 150 years between Hogarth and Turner.
@robinsimonbaj examines what launched British artists of this era into the European stratosphere.
Robin Simon - The Wright Stuff
Robin Simon: The Wright Stuff - The Invention of British Art by Bendor Grosvenor
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