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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alex Peake-Tomkinson |Freddy Gray |James Cahill |Susie Mesure
Anne Tyler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989, is much admired by writers, ranging from Hanya Yanagihara to Nick Hornby, for novels such as The Accidental Tourist (1985) and A Spool of Blue Thread (2015). In Three Days in June, Tyler’s twenty-fifth novel, Gail Baines is not having a good day. An assistant headmistress, she is expecting to be promoted when the headmistress asks to speak to her.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Lynn Barber |James Cahill |Alexander Larman |Susie Mesure
How do you make the life of Woody Allen unbearably dull? Mainly by retelling the plots of every one of his movies, along with lists of cast and crew, box-office receipts and critical reactions. And there are so many movies — fifty so far, but there’ll probably be another by the time you read this. Long ago, Allen got into the habit of making a film a year, and so he goes on. He once said he was “like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves” — he couldn’t stop.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | James Cahill |Toby Young |Emily Rhodes |Mathew Lyons
Edmund White grew up in a world where sex, and gay sex in particular, was an unspoken reality. In 1950s Cincinnati, “no one ‘came out’ except drag queens and the campy peroxided waiter at the diner,” he writes in the first chapter of The Loves of My Life. That blanket of near-silence doesn’t seem to have inhibited him much. He was sexually precocious from the age of twelve, as his autobiographical novel A Boy’s Own Story (1982) first suggested.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Gisela C. Stotz |James Cahill |Ernesto Gianoli
1 INTRODUCTION Biological invasions are a major threat to native biodiversity and habitat integrity. Due to their strong negative impacts on native plants' performance, invasive plants are likely to act as agents of phenotypic selection (Oduor, 2013; Stotz et al., 2016; Strauss et al., 2006).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | James Cook |Bee Rowlatt |James Cahill |Libby Purves
“I once thought that I’d become a care worker by chance, but now I wonder if it was simply inevitable”, writes Kathryn Faulke in her memoir, Every Kind of People. “I was carrying my parents’ kindness, compassion and practicality … I had absorbed the tenets of care. I just didn’t know it back then.” Faulke is able to put these qualities to use when she quits her high-pressure career as an NHS dietitian for a poorly paid job in domiciliary care.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | James Cahill
An exhibition of more than one hundred artists spanning five centuries, “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920” was a singular achievement, reflecting a larger trend. It followed in the wake of numerous books and exhibitions that have asked what it means to see female artists on their own terms, away from the glare of male counterparts. The displays at Tate Britain restated the question in multiple historical contexts.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | James Cahill |Jeremy Dauber |Libby Purves |Andrew Seaton
“London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those parks are famous for is not necessarily limited to the flowerbeds and landscaping.” Outlining some of the popular haunts of gay men, from cinemas to Turkish baths to the public lavatories or “cottages” that served as assignation spots, the book was ahead of its time: homosexuality between consenting males in private was only decriminalized the following year.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Andrew Seaton |James Cahill |Libby Purves |Jeremy Dauber
In 1911 Karl Pearson became the first chair of eugenics at University College London. Eugenics held that humanity could be “improved” by encouraging those with desirable mental and physical attributes to reproduce, or by preventing those with “inferior” attributes from doing so. Pearson used numbers to imbue both approaches with scientific authority.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | James Cahill
Describing his friend David Medalla (1938–2021) in his 1995 book on the artist, critic Guy Brett said: “For Medalla, identity is kinetic, shared, a complex amalgam.” Brett’s judgment reverberated through “In Conversation with the Cosmos,” the Hammer Museum’s intricate, meticulous survey of the artist’s work.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | James Cahill
There was an elegiac air to the first exhibition of Rodney Graham’s work at Lisson Gallery since the artist’s death, in 2022. Graham made the four light boxes and seven abstract paintings during the final decade of his life, and this fact may have added to the sense of an ending.
