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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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 …
On Freedom by Timothy Snyder - review by Stuart Jeffries
The late American president Ronald Reagan told a press conference in 1986: ‘The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”’ That remark typified a growing neoliberal American conviction that freedom should be conceived ...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin - 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, the surreptitious machinations to support the artist’s prices. But the details are now likely to be ...
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 that were metres high; rivers and lakes froze; transport ground to a …
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What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
While Shakespeare seems to maintain the status of perennial contemporary, Milton does not enjoy quite the same standing. The knotty theological wrangling and offensively strict gender hierarchies of Paradise Lost, not to mention the obtrusive and rebarbative personality of its author, make it an ever-harder sell.Is Milton’s 10,565-line poem …
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The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - review by Tom Williams
T ensions between the public and the private lie at the heart of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, a novel predominantly set in Penang in 1921 and immersed in the social mores of the British Empire.Lesley Hamlyn is married to Robert, a barrister eighteen years her senior. Theirs is a polite, passionless marriage, burdened but also sustained by deep silences and long-stored secrets, the two ...