This week's @TheTLS, featuring Anne Enright on John Cheever (and Blake Bailey); @DeclanRBoxing on Richard Yates in London; @francescawade on Paula Rego; @johnpaulstonard on museum-building; @mialevitin on Maggie Nelson – and more pic.twitter.com/B11Br0H7jb
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Category Archives: Previews
Cover Preview: Newsweek Magazine – September 24
Literary Preview: London Review Of Books – Sep 9
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – September 4
Previews: Long Weekends Magazine – Fall/Winter ’21
Cover Previews: Apollo Magazine – September 2021
FEATURES | Jonathan Griffin on mysticism and modern art; Yasmine Seale watches Sheila Hicks at work; Andrew Lloyd Webber gives Sophie Barling a tour of Drury Lane; Eve M. Kahn at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; Valeria Costa-Kostritsky on the Museum of Homelessness

| REVIEWS | Susan Owens on Gustave Moreau’s fables at Waddesdon; Aimee Ng on the Medici at the Met; Emilie Bickerton on Georges Méliès at the Cinémathèque Française; Peter Parker on Richard Chopping in Salisbury; Tom Stammers on history in the age of Romanticism; Kitty Hauser on the life of Francis Bacon; David Ekserdjian on Italian paintings at the Norton Simon; Sameer Rahim on the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus; Rebecca Ann Hughes on the tricks of the white-truffle trade |
| MARKET | Jo Lawson-Tancred selects her highlights of TEFAF Online; and the latest art market columns from Susan Moore; Emma Crichton-Miller and Samuel Reilly |
| PLUS | Susan Moore and Niru Ratnam ask if the art world has a sense of humour; Diane Smyth on the rise of falling in photography; Martin Herbert at the restored Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin; William Dunbar on a cave monastery in Georgia; Gillian Darley on the visions of Joseph Gandy; Robert O’Byrne on the forgotten art of Ignazio Hugford |
Cover Previews: The New Yorker – September 6, 2021
Cover Previews: France Magazine – October 2021

Visit the fabled Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company
Outside the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. Pic: Bonnie Elliott
“There are bookshops so packed with history, eccentricity and cultural clout they become a story themselves and the subject of literature. They have the kind of aura that extends beyond bookshelves and rises above commerce, offering writers and readers a refuge from the storms outside, a place where you feel a potential literary superstar just to hang out there.
City Lights in San Francisco (est. 1953), Strand bookstore in New York (est. 1927) and Foyles in London (est. 1903) fall into this category, but the stand-out trailblazer of them all has to be Shakespeare and Company in Paris, ‘a novel in three words’, as the founder of its current manifestation, George Whitman, once described it.”
Previews: New Scientist Magazine – August 28
Video Trailers: ‘The Maltese Falcon (1941) – 80th Anniversary Edition
The new trailer for the landmark film noir starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston – back in cinemas UK-wide from 17 September to celebrate its 80th anniversary.
John Huston’s directorial debut, this year celebrating its 80th anniversary, turned Bogart into a major star. Adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel about a San Francisco detective’s investigations into the murder of his business partner, Huston’s snappily witty script retains the plot’s labyrinthine complexity while revelling in colourful characterisations of the villains Sam Spade encounters during his quest. Inspired casting includes Lorre as volatile Joel Cairo, Greenstreet as menacingly amiable Kasper Gutman, and Cook as his gunman. But it’s the fraught, febrile relationship between Bogart’s Spade and Mary Astor’s femme fatale – who persuaded his partner to take on her case – that shapes the deep, dark core of desire, doubt and duplicity pervading the film from beginning to memorable end.

