Times Literary Supplement (April 10, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Man Into Marble’ – Corin Throsby and Kathryn Sutherland on the real Byron; Anthony Burgess on music; Left in charge at the palazzo; Revolutionary Russia; A shorter Long Day’s Journey and What is lyric verse?…
Tag Archives: John Singer Sargent
Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – April 5, 2024
Times Literary Supplement (April 3, 2024): The ‘The Art Issue’ features ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ – Tom Seymour Evans: Carson McCullers’s unruly life; Violence and Climate Change; Posing for John Singer Sargent and Huckleberry Jim – Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story…
Life at the sad café
Carson McCullers: a novelist of the marginalized and ‘those struggling to understand who they are’
Huckleberry Jim
Mark Twain’s escaped slave wrests control of his story
Nods and winks of recognition
Percival Everett’s wry, provocative novel on the publishing world brought to the screen
By Colin Grant
Art Exhibits: “Fashioned By Sargent” At MFA Boston
PBS NewsHour (November 29, 2023) – The great painter John Singer Sargent, an American expat, is the subject of a new show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. It reveals much about his methods and why his work remains relevant more than a hundred years later.
Fashioned by Sargent
October 8, 2023–January 15, 2024
Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.


