18 March, 2013

Gabriel Roberts

Not Great

Gabriel Roberts finds this collection of late writing scattered, insubstantial, and unworthy of the late Christopher Hitchens.


Calum Mechie

Laptops for Goalposts

Jonathan Wilson's history of the goalkeeper emerges as an allegory for the passionate but peripheral role of the football fan.


Judyta Frodyma

Liquid Landscapes

The National Maritime Museum's extensive exhibition of the photography of Ansel Adams is a little too crowded to do these canonical depictions of the American landscape justice.


Trace Vardsveen

A History of Violence

Quentin Tarantino's latest film warps history, vengeance, and justice in the director's now signature blend of pastiche and atrocity.


Willy Oppenheim

Poetry Competition 2013 Winner

The winner of this year's poetry competition, as chosen by Ian Pindar.


3 March, 2013

Tom Cutterham

Last Clowns Dancing

Lars Iyer's latest novel completes a trilogy dedicated to thought, foolishness, and the university, writes Tom Cutterham


Charles Nixon

Variations on Wallace

Charles Nixon finds too many faults in the latest posthumous collection of David Foster Wallace's writing.


Kevin Brazil

Pop Goes History

Kevin Brazil is left cold by Tate Modern's new Lichtenstein retrospective but gets hooked on Kurt Schwitters at Tate Britain.


Ceri Hunter

Jane Austen’s Material World

Paula Byrne gets big ideas from some very small objects in her new biography of Jane Austen, Ceri Hunter writes.


Paul Sweeten

Gentlemen

An original short story by Paul Sweeten.