Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway - review by D D Guttenplan
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 …
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Kaput: The End of the German Miracle by Wolfgang Münchau
Wolfgang Münchau has, for more than thirty years, been one of the most acute and penetrating commentators on the European Union, writing in the Financial Times, the New Statesman and …
Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics
Dec 1, 2024 · Among the earliest exhibits in ‘Figures of the Fool’ is a marginal illustration in a French medieval illuminated manuscript showing two bizarre, proto-Boschian figures lining up …
Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
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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 …
The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History
Dec 1, 2024 · Monasteries and convents have in modern times become marginal, countercultural institutions, and the people who live in them are rarities as well as oddities. At university, some …
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller - review by Stevie Davies
Andrew Miller’s moving new novel is set in the ‘Big Freeze’ of 1962–3, Britain’s coldest winter since 1739. From December through to February, there was no let-up. Snowdrifts formed walls …
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux - Literary Review
Reading art history can be like watching paint dry: X studied under the distinguished Professor Y at the Académie de ZZZ. Scandal can pique the reader’s interest – the numberless offspring, …