Essays on everything.
Reviews: Culture
Book Review: ‘The White Album’ by Joan Didion
New Journalism from the late-1960s and early 1970s.
Book Review: ‘Dead and Alive’ by Zadie Smith
A fantastic collection of essays.
Book Review: ‘Vertigo’ by Harald Jähner
The rise and fall of Weimar Germany, 1918–1933.
Book Review: ‘Vivian Maier Developed’ by Ann Marks
The unearthed biography of a lauded photographic nanny.
Book Review: ‘Landscapes’ by John Berger
Excellent essay collection on art and culture.
Book Review: ‘Enough Said’ by Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett’s fourth volume of diaries.
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.
Book review: ‘Unclassified: a Walker Evans anthology’
Extracts from the celebrated photographer’s archive.
Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
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