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October 29, 2018

Chastising Churchill

Chastising Churchill

'Seventy years after independence, bashing Winston Churchill has become a sure-fire way of attracting a mass following on Indian social media'
October 29, 2018
Jusepe de Ribera went beyond palpability — the way the paint becomes flesh — to the visceral.

Skin and bone

'Jusepe de Ribera went beyond palpability — the way the paint becomes flesh — to the visceral. He sought to engage all our senses at once'
October 29, 2018
There once was a Tudor woman with flaming red hair.

Bess the best

'There once was a Tudor woman with flaming red hair. Her name was Elizabeth, but she wasn’t the queen. Her reputation preceded her — Bess of Hardwick'
October 29, 2018
Sylvia has the last wounding word

Sylvia has the last wounding word

The second volume of Plath’s Letters begins with great happiness and poetic promise — and ends with the destruction of her marriage and her death
October 29, 2018
This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children.

Low points of life with Father

This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children. It is hard to know which father comes out worst: Jonathan Miller or Steve Jobs
October 29, 2018
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