MARY CONWAY is gripped by the powerful emotional journeys portrayed by the parents of the perpetrator and victims of a mass shooting
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Life in acute focus
TOM KING recommends two outstanding exhibitions of Roman Vishniac's documentary photographs
Three women, Mukacevo, ca. 1935-38
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LEO BOIX reviews a novel where shadows deceive and mortality looms, and a poetry collection that refuses to dim
ROBIN STYLES welcomes a boundary pushing work of fiction exploring the life and ideas of the godmother of modernism
PAUL DONOVAN recommends an energetic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, that emphasises how psychiatry is a tool in the hands of a racist agenda
ED WAUGH introduces a special event to commemorate the centenary of the 1926 General Strike
Reviews of Charlotte Cornfield, Michael Weston King, and Gun Outfit
Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
Jewish Museum and Photographers’ Gallery, London
YOU would struggle to find a more comprehensive study of Jewish life in the 20th century than that carried out by Roman Vishniac, whose extraordinary body of work is currently on show at both the Photographers’ Gallery and the Jewish Museum in London.
Burlesque dancer entertaining servicemen and other patrons while balancing a glass on her head, Leon & Eddie's, 52nd Street, New York, 1945 (Pic: Roman Vishniac )
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