Culture
Reviews about art and culture.
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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.
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Book review: ‘Required Writing’ by Philip Larkin
Required reading.
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Book review: ‘Lifelines’ by Julian Hoffman
Searching for home in the mountains of Greece.
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Book review: ‘The Celts’ by Alice Roberts
Searching for a civilisation.
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Book review: ‘Photography: a very short introduction’ by Steve Edwards
Thoughts on important photographic topics.
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Book review: ‘See/Saw’ by Geoff Dyer
Looking at photographs.
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Book review: ‘The Ongoing Moment’ by Geoff Dyer
A book about photography.
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Book review: ‘Camera Lucida’ by Roland Barthes
A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.