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TJ Clark and Jeremy Harding: Heaven on Earth
What is it about the particularities of painting that has allowed artists to explore, in a variety of ways and with a sometimes surprising degree of …
7 years, 5 months ago
Iain Sinclair and Patrick Wright: Living with Buildings
In Living With Buildings (Profile), Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions – through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. He e…
7 years, 5 months ago
Martin Moore and David Runciman: Democracy Hacked
In Democracy Hacked, Martin Moore examines how our own fragile political systems are being gamed by authoritarian states, shadowy hackers and unaccou…
7 years, 6 months ago
Ben Marcus and Eley Williams: Notes from the Fog
Ben Marcus is one of contemporary American fiction’s most masterful writers. His new book of short stories, Notes from the Fog (Granta), is an emotio…
7 years, 6 months ago
Marina Warner and Eleanor Birne: Forms of Enchantment
Marina Warner’s new collection of essays, Forms of Enchantment (Thames and Hudson), collects her writing on art from 1988 to the present, including p…
7 years, 6 months ago
Richard Powers and Benjamin Markovits: The Overstory
Richard Powers, one of America’s greatest novelists, often compared to Pynchon and Roth, read from and talked about his twelfth novel ‘The Overstory’…
7 years, 7 months ago
Slavoj Žižek and William Davies: Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world - changing it almost beyond recognition. In his new book, Like…
7 years, 7 months ago
Carlo Rovelli and Pedro Ferreira: The Order of Time
What is the meaning of time? Is there such a thing as the present? How can we reconcile our intuitions on the subject with the scientific overturning…
7 years, 7 months ago
Seven Types of Atheism: John Gray and Adam Phillips
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a narrow derision of religion in the name of an often very vaguely understood 'science'. In …
7 years, 7 months ago
Out of My Head: Tim Parks and Laurence Scott
Out of My Head tells the highly personal and often surprisingly funny story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about consciousness. It seems not a …
7 years, 8 months ago