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In the Current Issue: Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women ...
Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Dec 1, 2024 · There’s a chain of upmarket hotels that share their name with the artist Mondrian, though it seems unlikely that their ‘offer’ is based on his lifestyle. If it were, the reviews on Tripadvisor would include some stinkers. Guests would complain about …
Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway - review by D D Guttenplan
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway. In May 1966, an aggrieved John le Carré wrote to the editor of the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta in response to a critical review.Noting that his books were at that point unavailable in the Soviet Union, he set out his stall for the benefit of (sadly imaginary) Russian …
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Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women * Charles Shaar Murray on ...
Issue 532 - Literary Review
John Adamson on Oliver Cromwell * Edward Vallance on the English Republic * Andrew McMillan on Thom Gunn * Tanya Harrod on art and motherhood * Alexander Christie-Miller on Turkey * Peter Davidson on Caspar David Friedrich * Stephen Walsh on Tchaikovsky * Douglas Field on James Baldwin * Dmitri Levitin on Andreas Vesalius * Lucy Moore on artistic swimming * George Cochrane on the new horror ...
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In the Current Issue: There must have been more inappropriate titles for books than this one, but to suggest that W Somerset Maugham was a Traveller in Romance is, on the implausible face of it, rather like calling Marco Polo a home-body. Whoever frowned more scornfully against romantic cant than the Old Party? Indeed, Maugham’s old age began early: he was not yet out of his twenties when he ...
Summer by Ali Smith - review by Sarah Ditum - Literary Review
What is to be done with hope? Ali Smith is a great artist of possibility. Think of the role chance plays in her work, from The Accidental to How to be Both’s thrillingly shuffled structure that meant you had a fifty-fifty chance of getting the contemporary narrative first or the historical one.But these are bleak times – from Smith’s perspective, anyway, which I should state here is ...
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich - review by Zuzanna Lachendro
Set in Red River Valley, North Dakota, against the backdrop of the 2008 economic crisis, Louise Erdrich’s twenty-ninth book, The Mighty Red, is concerned with the world of farmland communities.The difficulties they confront, and their differences, are brought to life though vivid, despairing descriptions of the residents of the small town of Tabor, north of Fargo.