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In Gauguin’s Shadow

  Emile Bernard, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris and Kunsthalle, Bremen Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Musée D’Orsay/Glammarion, $39 17 September 2014 –…

Tough as Old Boots

  The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957–1965 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck,…

A Glinting Scree

  A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw, Faber and Faber, 2014, 240pp, £16.99 (hardback) The poetic image can…

An Artist at Work

  Rembrandt: The Late Works, 15 October – 18 January, Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery (The Rijksmuseum, 12 February –17…

The Magus of Cheshire

In 2010 – on 10/10/10, to be precise – Alan Garner celebrated fifty years of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, his…

Fête

  by Guillaume Apollinaire Translated by Timothy Adès Fireworks filigreed in steel Very pretty lighting this Artificer’s artifice Courage gets…

Death’s Dream Kingdom

  Fire Songs, David Harsent, Faber and Faber, 2014, 80pp, £12.99 (hardback) Sailing the Forest – Selected Poems, Robin Robertson,…

Zhivago and Ulysses

  The Most Dangerous Book, Kevin Birmingham, Head of Zeus, 2014, 432pp, £20 (hardback) The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and…

Free Radical

  Egon Schiele – The Radical Nude The Courtauld Gallery, London 23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015 Vienna has…

Growing Pains

  It is a question I have, from time to time, asked myself. If I had had the sort of…

Myths of the MacArthur Suite

  When the tour guide throws open the doors to the Douglas MacArthur Suite, I’m fairly sure what to expect.…

An Unlikely Friendship

From his room in West London he could hear the approach of footsteps on the street below. The birds were…

Son Of A Firecracker

  She’d leave me in a motel room, toy tipper truck and a dream of the ocean for company as…

The Women and King Harold

  Ubi Harold interfectus est … – Bayeux Tapestry Along the margins of embroidery when the women grew bored with…

The Windows

  The windows’ crispy cataracts conceal a small garden where the tickled chemistry of frost has electrified the few shrubs…

Easy Rider

  Translated into English by Rimas Uzgiris i will ride the blazing bus in the dark through the station of…

Schist

  All tilt and roll, all drop and swell, our ferry-boat, the Friendly Hooker. We rolled with her, on our…

Solomon’s Stables

  Caressing mare’s ribs, the master coaxes the foal into odd environs as sibling colts munch fresh hay, sifting after…

Séance

  Consider the imperatives of talking to a ghost, how remote your voice would sound, wax cylinder faint. You would…

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