Doris Lessing and the Artist’s Enduring Legacy
My first venture into Doris Lessing came only in April this year. The Grass is Singing, which had lingered in a bedroom floor pile since Christmas, seemed like an ideal […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
The UK’s True City of Culture
So Hull has been unveiled as the UK City of Culture 2017. When I first visited last year, I stepped into a taxi from the station and asked the jolly […]
Advent of the Advert
Forget the coloured candles in church and the chocolate calendars at home. There’s a new kind of advent heralding the start of Christmas: the advent of the advert. From the […]
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Having well and truly digested the delights of the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay over several years, my visit to the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris was […]
Slow Photography
I was on the metro in Paris one evening when two voices broke the communal trance. An American tourist was complaining that all ten photos taken of her on the […]
Review: Great Expectations & The Unconsoled
Browsing the Dickens shelf of Waterstones after my graduation in June, a certain question inevitably posed itself. Just how did such an enthusiast of Victorian literature get through an English […]
