A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
04 Nov 12 Comments (0)
Up-to-date with a vengeance
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula
05 Sep 12 Comments (0)Dickens’s full marathon
Charles Dickens turns 200 in February. Richard Johnstone looks at a life that might have turned on the placement of an inkstand
08 Dec 11 Comments (0)Art in internment
Deported after the first world war, Paul Dubotzki had created a remarkable record of life as an internee, writes Glenn Nicholls
12 May 11 Comments (0)Artist or documenter?
Terry Lane on the career and life of one of America’s great photographers, Berenice Abbott
24 Feb 11 Comments (0)The burden of numbers
BOOKS | Mumbai is a big city getting bigger, writes Jim Masselos, but amid the crowds the quest for freedom goes on
19 Jan 11 Comments (0)Anything is possible
BOOKS | Perhaps Ferran Adrià – the chef who redefined the restaurant dinner as a series of culinary tweets, usually thirty or more of them in a sitting – really is the man who changed the way we eat, writes Richard Johnstone
26 Oct 10 Comments (0)A long inheritance
CINEMA | Taika Waititi’s Boy draws on a decades-old tradition of Maori political and cultural activism, writes Sylvia Lawson
20 Oct 10 Comments (0)Each man was an island
BOOKS | Glenn Nicholls reviews the German-language edition of Herta Müller’s latest novel, Everything I Possess I Carry with Me
19 Oct 10 Comments (0)Kindling
BOOKS | Terry Lane reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
06 Oct 10 Comments (1)Large questions about a big corporation
BOOKS | “If it stays humble and moves with the swiftness of a fox, it will be difficult to catch.” Jock Given reviews Ken Auletta’s Googled
07 Jul 10 Comments (0)Windschuttle, again
BOOKS | Keith Windschuttle brings the temperament of a barrister to his latest subject, the stolen generations, writes Dean Ashenden
15 Mar 10 Comments (4)Keith Jarrett and his archetypal standards
JAZZ | Like his trio music, Keith Jarrett’s solo concerts draw on enduring music forms, writes Andrew Ford
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