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How baffling to know Mr Lear

How baffling to know Mr Lear

In her biography of Edward Lear, Sara Lodge engages with the contradictions at the heart of a man determined to both express and conceal himself
December 3, 2018
The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run.

The spy who loved us

"The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run"
December 3, 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
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