From the March 2024 Issue Mysteries of the Deep A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks By David Gibbins LR
From the April 2019 Issue Where Every Man is an Island Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific By Christina Thompson LR
From the April 2018 Issue He Never Sat an Exam A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things: The Life of Alexander von Humboldt By Maren Meinhardt
From the September 2016 Issue Marooned with a View Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness By Andrew Lambert LR
From the August 2016 Issue From Plymouth to Polynesia Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771 By Neil Chambers LR
From the May 2016 Issue ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’ The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery By Graham Seal 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.
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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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