Books & arts
2 December 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Janet Lewis’s The Trial of Sören Qvist
Books & arts
14 November 2013
Richard Johnstone explores the art of rephotography
Books & arts
21 October 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Ella K. Maillart’s account of a remarkable prewar journey across Europe and into Asia
Books & arts
25 September 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Muriel Spark’s The Mandelbaum Gate
Books & arts
18 August 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews B.S. Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
Books & arts
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Mark McShane’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Books & arts
7 June 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
Books & arts
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
National affairs
24 April 2013
The State Library of New South Wales’s breathtaking trove of photographs from the 1870s
Books & arts
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Richard Hughes’s The Fox in the Attic
Books & arts
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist
Books & arts
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s Climates
Books & arts
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone reviews Shiva Naipaul’s The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Books & arts
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews the newly reissued Prater Violet
Books & arts
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
25 October 2012
Three books recover forgotten lives in very different ways
Books & arts
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern Dracula
Books & arts
9 August 2012
Richard Johnstone on two very different explorations of food
Books & arts
3 August 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure
Books & arts
4 July 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château
Books & arts
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
Books & arts
3 May 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews a new edition of a classic novel
Books & arts
27 April 2012
If we are the sum of our memories, then how should we go about creating them, asks Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
4 April 2012
Richard Johnstone on Picador’s reissue of White Noise, and its fortieth anniversary cover design
Books & arts
7 March 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Kirsten Tranter’s A Common Loss
Books & arts
27 February 2012
From the archive | Fifty years after the publication of Jane Jacobs’s landmark book, we’re still trying to find our way around the city, writes Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
1 February 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
Books & arts
12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Books & arts
8 December 2011
Charles Dickens turns 200 in February. Richard Johnstone looks at a life that might have turned on the placement of an inkstand