From the February 2022 Issue Beware White Men Bearing Corned Beef Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine By Anna Della Subin LR
From the May 2020 Issue A Rock of One’s Own The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands By Alastair Bonnett
From the December 2015 Issue What Lies Beneath A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness By Gareth Williams LR
From the August 2015 Issue 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea… Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City By Mark Adams LR
From the June 2014 Issue Exit, Coral The Reef: A Passionate History – The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change By Iain McCalman LR
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Paul Gauguin kept house with a teenage ‘wife’ in French Polynesia, islands whose culture he is often accused of ransacking for his art.
@StephenSmithWDS asks if Gauguin is still worth looking at.
Stephen Smith - Art of Rebellion
Stephen Smith: Art of Rebellion - Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
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‘I have fond memories of discussing Lorca and the state of Andalusian theatre with Antonio Banderas as Lauren Bacall sat on the dressing-room couch.’
@henryhitchings on Simon Russell Beale.
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Henry Hitchings: The Play’s the Thing - A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Fredric Jameson.
Here, from 1983, is Terry Eagleton’s review of The Political Unconscious.
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Terry Eagleton: Supermarket of the Mind - The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act by Fredric Jameson
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