Culture
Reviews about art and culture.
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Book Review: ‘Vivian Maier Developed’ by Ann Marks
The unearthed biography of a lauded photographic nanny.
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Book Review: ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger
An excellent essay collection on art and culture.
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Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett
Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
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Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W. G. Sebald
A posthumous Selbaldian collection.
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Book review: ‘The Future of Truth’ by Werner Herzog
What we mean when we talk of ‘truth’ and how to cope in our post-truth era.
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Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’
Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.
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Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
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Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit
Essays on feminism for everyone.
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Book review: ‘The Red Tenda of Bologna’ by John Berger
A short memoir-cum-essay on the city of Bologna and an enigmatic uncle.
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Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince
Writer and comedian tours 104 bookshops, buying far too many books as he does so.
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Book review: ‘Proto’ by Laura Spinney
How one ancient language went global.