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The go-between
Photo: Les Haines/ Flickr A House in Flanders By Michael Jenkins Slightly Foxed | £12 SIR MICHAEL JENKINS, who died last month at the age of seventy-seven, was far from being a public figure, but he...
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The best non-famous writer of his generation
“Ancient virtues and ancient defects”: Tossa de Mar, where Lewis and his family spent postwar summers. Photo: lluriPhoto / Flickr Voices of the Old Sea By Norman Lewis Eland | $29.99 IN HIS travel...
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The sublime symmetry of double-entry bookkeeping
“I could look it up”: B.S. Johnson anticipated the rise of technology and the dangers inherent in the anonymity it confers. B.S. Johnson Society Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry By B.S. Johnson...
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A premonition of bloodshed
Belonging but not belonging: detail from Martin Haake’s cover illustration for The Mandelbaum Gate. The Mandelbaum Gate By Muriel Spark Virago| $24.99 THE German illustrator Martin Haake often works...
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More necessary than life
Heroine: Ella K. Maillart (right) with her travelling companion Annemarie Schwarzenbach and their Ford, from the cover of The Cruel Way. The Cruel Way: Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939 By...
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Then and now, now and then
Progress and change: These photographs from Irina Werning’s Back to the Future series combine the changed landscape of traditional then-and-now photos with a new variant. IN THE early years of the...
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Consequences
One of a great company of men and women: Sören Qvist, as depicted by Sebastian Biot on the cover of The Trial of Sören Qvist. The Trial of Sören Qvist By Janet Lewis Swallow Press | $22.99 FOR a...
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Moving pictures
In the moment: tattoos are pictures in motion in an age that values movement over stillness. FullofTravel/ Flickr MARCH is Art Month in Sydney, which this year comprises over 200 exhibitions and...
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The humane and sympathetic eye of Sam Hood
Detail from a photograph of Sam Hood outside his Dalny Studios, 124 Pitt Street, Sydney, 1953. Click to see full picture. Ted Hood/ State Library of New South Wales SAM HOOD began his photographic...
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What does it mean to photograph a street?
Animating context: Fredrik Bruno’s depiction of people at the Skansen open-air museum in Djurgården, central Stockholm (c. 1943). Swedish National Heritage Board Google Street View, by now a way of...
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