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LATEST ARTICLES ( 303 )

• What I've Been Reading... and Not Reviewing (1)

  

  I haven't reviewed anything for ages but that doesn't mean I've stopped reading. Life just took over and swamped me. But here I am again and here's some of... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Painting

  

  This lovely and unusual painting of a woman artist is by the French painter Étienne Azambre (1859-1935), and is called  Interior of a Studio, 1889. Of... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Quiddity of Will Self

  

  I sat on the Picadilly Line with Will Self's liver on my lap... This novel was kindly sent to me by the publisher several weeks ago, and I started reading it... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Not Reading

  

  This is what I feel rather like doing today -- it's grey and rainy outside and I woke up much too early. But duty calls -- too much to do, too little time. Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Frozen Shroud

  

  Isn't this a lovely and evocative cover? If I saw this in a bookshop I'd pick it up just to see if the inside lived up to it. The Lake District is a part of... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don's Diary, 1996

  

  In an idle moment this morning -- or rather one that should not have been idle except that I was procrastinating -- I googled myself. Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women Reading

  

  Group of young women reading in library of normal school, Washington, D.C. This very evocative photo, which was found on here, comes with the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Carrier

  

  I have been a huge fan of Sophie Hannah's novels from the beginning. In fact just a year ago I was raving about the one before this one, Kind of Cruel, which I... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Rabbit Reading

  

  Seeing as its Easter, here's a bunny reading. I had no idea why rabbits were associated with Easter, but thanks to Wikipedia I now have rather more information... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Treacherous Likeness

  

  I do like a good historical thriller (with the emphasis on good) and especially so if they have real historical figures appearing in them. Tricky to do, but... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Dr Thorne

  

  How Did He Do It? is not the title of a novel by Anthony Trollope, though it could be (cf. Can You Forgive Her? Is He Popenjoy?, Did He Steal It?). No, it... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spring Landscape

  

  Something for everyone who is suffering from an unseasonably late and cold spring. Here in France we have so far escaped the snow and bitter cold that has hit... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• People Reading

  

  This attractive image is of a painting by one Knut Ekwall (1843-1912), a Swedish artist. It's called The Reading Lesson. But here's the question -- who is the... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All the Beggars Riding

  

  Clever Lucy Caldwell, who writes both plays and novels and manages to win prizes for both, has just published this, her third novel. I've read the other two, an... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Naked Woman Reading

  

  Leon Kroll (1884-1974) painted this. Life Magazine described him as "the dean of US nude painters" and somebody else said he had " the eye... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Mother

  

  Not actually my mother, who, God bless her, departed this life many many years ago, but the mother of the great Swedish painter Carl Larsson. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• "perfect for Fans Of..."

  

  If there's one thing that really riles me when I find it on the cover of a book, it's a comment such as 'perfect for fans of [insert random name here]'. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl with Flowers

  

  This painting, 'Girl with Flowers', is by Francis Coates Jones (1857-1932),  found on a website I often visit called Old Paint. Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Armadillo

  

  As you may have noticed if you have been paying attention round here recently, I am completely in love with William Boyd, or at least with his writing since I... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• HD on EBB in the OED

  

  As some of you undoubtedly know, Simon of that great blog stuck-in-a-book has recently started working on the blog which lives on the website of the Oxford... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE