MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Abject displays
FIONA O'CONNOR salutes a valuable document of the art work of marginalised women in pre-gentrified New York
Helene Cixous teaching at Maison Heine, Paris; (inset) Ana Mendieta in Havana in 1981.
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
by Lauren Elkin, Chatto & Windus , £20
DISTANCED from the market’s central nervous system, the avant-gardes of art and literature play together.
New ways of seeing, desiring and being are imagined. Questions about selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, emerge while mainstream discourses are directed elsewhere.
A lack of curiosity from the market — because unsellable — helps create conditions in which artists and writers kick back against their confinements: social repression, economic unviability, the taboo.
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