For some people, old age is like a mirage: always on the horizon but never reached – by themselves at any rate. When my father was in his early eighties, he referred somewhat disdainfully to his neighbour, eight years younger than he, as ‘the old man’, but he never applied the epithet to himself. And […]
In the ancient world, happiness was a gift of the gods that could be withdrawn at any moment. No one imagined it to be a state of mind that could be deliberately pursued and permanently achieved. When philosophers advocated the pursuit of happiness, they had in mind something quite different from the life of continuous […]
At the time of writing this review, one of the hot films was The Social Network, a dramatisation of the founding of Facebook by the Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Jesse Eisenberg plays Zuckerberg as a borderline sociopath who lacks human empathy, yet is colossally endowed with the sort of genius that made the invention of […]
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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.
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This and two more newly available pieces from our October 1984 issue in our From the Archives newsletter. Sign up on our website so you never miss another dispatch.
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)
literaryreview.co.uk
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
literaryreview.co.uk