David Gentleman’s pensées for the novice artist
His advice is not highfalutin, but at least it is straightforward.
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The Salt Path and the sins of memoir
We are all unreliable narrators of our own lives.
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From Lore Segal to Jimi Famurewa: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring The Manifesto House by Owen Hopkins and Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick.
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Art in the wreckage of Gaza
Does satire ever belong in a war-zone?
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Samuel Pepys’s diary of a somebody
Kate Loveman’s history of a national treasure preserves Pepys’s charm while revealing a discomfiting historical world.
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Xi Jinping’s daddy issues
The Chinese president’s concept of power was forged by the suffering of his revolutionary father, Xi Zhongxun.
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The Great Men of history 2.0
Alexander Starritt’s new novel, Drayton and Mackenzie, attempts to cast Big Tech’s leaders as Olympians shaping our age – but…
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Six journeys that changed the world
The 20th century, for better and for worse, was the communist century.
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