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Beverley Knowles finds another side to the poet's tragic talent at an exhibition of her drawings ...  read more »

Simon Willis explores Rembrandt's influence on Francis Bacon at "Irrational Marks", an exhibition at Ordovas in London ...    read more »

A decade ago, critics predicted that September 11th would change how America thinks and feels. Lee Siegel argues that it's as restless as ever ...   read more »

Adrian Tomine's latest book is a sweet meditation on wedding planning. Emily Flake asks him if he worries about seeming too well-adjusted ...  read more »

When a cathedral needs a new stained-glass window, Tom Denny’s telephone rings. Ann Wroe watches him at work on a major commission ...  read more »

Long ago Margaret Drabble fell for the colours of Florence. Now it’s the semi-precious stones that especially delight her ...  read more »

Northern England, 1936: a boy of six suddenly hears that he once had a mother. All that survives of her is a handful of photos and her sheet music. Only later does he piece together her story. A memoir by Irving Wardle ...
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Few know of Timothy O'Sullivan, though he was one of the first photographers to chronicle the American west. Alexander Ewing surveys a show of his work at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC ...  read more »

In "Book Choice", the first of a series, Maggie Fergusson, secretary of the Royal Society of Literature in London, tells us what good books she's read lately ...  read more »

Art.view visits a charming museum of life in a French village in the 19th-century ...  read more »