March 2011
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FOR THE BIG GUY: LES MURRAY & THE NOBEL /...
In September 2010 I walked into the giant independent bookstore Hodges Figgis in Dublin. In the front part of the store are wooden display shelves with the numbers 1-10: ranking the current bestsellers. Above Room, Joseph O’Connor’s Ghost Light, and undoubtably, some new excursion in dreary dullness by Colm Toibin, was – Human Chain, Seamus Heaney’s newest collection! In...
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FIELDS / BONNY CASSIDY
On the day I visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, summer sun is stinging my eyes. In the museum, the blurred world is replaced by images of cool canals and floor tiles from the Delft School of painting. Already, in Delft at the start of the seventeenth century, the single-point perspective of the Renaissance was beginning to be displaced. The painter Carel Fabritius’s...
