This month in culture: September 2024
What to watch this September
Books & Arts
The life of David Sylvester
The art critic was the master of being in the right place at the right time and with the right people
In the studio with Merche Gaspar
‘People seek me out because I do things in a certain way’
Jane Thynne pulls off a new kind of spy novel
Midnight in Vienna channels the ominous parallels between the present-day rise of fascism in Europe and America with what happened in 1938
Creation Lake is one of the best books of the year
Creation Lake is a book about how humans deal with what is deemed to be Other
Examining children’s literature and its enduring worth
One of The Haunted Wood’s great strengths is Sam Leith’s awareness of just how important children’s literature is
The peculiar appeal of ‘sad-girl literature’
Prose style matters less than access to toxic love, pain and suffering… and a light smattering of suicide and violent death
Giles Milton retells the story of the Grand Alliance as a cinematic thriller
In the hands of a less skilled writer, The Stalin Affair could easily have been rather dull
Twenty years on from Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Since its publication in September 2004, Susanna Clarke’s novel has sold millions of copies worldwide
