Dog Run Moon by Callan Wink
Callan Wink’s debut collection of stories stands as a promising start to a fine literary career. Some of the stories included here have deservedly...
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters' Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in a title. The exhibition...
The Red and Yellow Nothing by Jay Bernard
It is difficult to put a finger on the immediate aftermath of reading The Red and Yellow Nothing: there is puzzlement, rage, and wonder,...
Artist and Bon Viveur | Andrew Lambirth
John Craxton in Greece: The Unseen Works, Osborne Samuel, 23 Dering Street, London W1, 10 May - 8 June 2018
Charmed lives in Greece: Ghika,...
Franciszka Themerson at l’étrangère
Avant-garde in its truest sense is an appellation that can be justifiably given to the artist, illustrator, film-maker, publisher, theatre and book designer, Franciszka...
Review | Don McCullin at Tate Britain
We live in an era in which we see more images than ever before in human history. When we see these images, in newspapers...
Dark Fairytale – Review of McQueen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
McQueen
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Limited run from 19th August
Reviewed by Lauren Hepburn
It's been five years since Lee McQueen took his life. The exquisite dress worn by...
Danny Rolph – East Central at CNB Gallery
To improve efficiency during World War I the 10 London postcode districts which had been introduced in 1857 were subdivided into numbered sub-districts, thus...
Review | Charlotte Prodger and Forensic Architecture — The Turner Prize...
In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquére Roseanne Stone discusses how our consciousness is altered by...
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First...
This year's contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of well-trodden publication routes like...
Extending the Range of Pejoratives: Howard Jacobson’s Pussy
Written in “a fury of disbelief” during the weeks that followed the unlikely election of Donald Trump, Howard Jacobson’s latest novel Pussy dramatizes the...
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can the experience of cancer...
Review | Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
Birthday (1942) hangs opposite the entrance to the first room. Tanning stands proud yet forlorn, shirt as open as the door which she holds,...
The Red Barn at The National Theatre
In a recent interview with The Times, acclaimed theatre director Robin Icke said that he walks out of shows at the interval ‘all the...
Review | The Monstrous Child at The Royal Opera House
The newly refurbished Linbury Theatre in the Royal Opera House is having its first opera performances with the world premiere of The Monstrous Child,...
The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence at Somerset House, 27 January – 3 April 2016
The Museum of Innocence offers the visitor a little corner of 1970s Istanbul, hidden...
Chalk Poets by Stephanie Norgate
The otherness of nature, the gap that separates its permanence from our finite experience, is as much a part of its constructed character as...
Princess Ida
Princess Ida, Finborough Theatre, Until 18th April 2015
One’s first experience of seeing a play at Finborough theatre is really rather charming. Located above the Finborough Arms...
The Modern Eye – Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern
‘Without anxiety and sickness I would have been a rudderless ship…’
– E. Munch
At any given time of the year, somewhere on the continent, there...
Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
If you dare to enter the murky world of short story criticism, you are likely to find yourself swamped by metaphors—florid, emotive, and frequently...
Review | Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays, Marci Vogel, Melville House, November 2018
Award-winning writer, poet and translator Marci Vogel is the author of the poetry collection At...
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth century: he cross-hatched it....
Review | End of the Pier at the Park Theatre
Review | End of the Pier by Danny Robins
By Francis Beckett
Mike is a successful stand-up comic with his own television show. His father Bobby...
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
… And could she disentangle it, the stuff she’d seen in her mind’s eye, from the actual stuff of her own life?
In 1935, fleeing...