Friday, August 29, 2008

• Jonathan Jones has more on Lucian Freud's resolute failure to paint nice paintings. (The Guardian)
• Zadie Smith has an excellent review in The New York Review of Books of The BBC Talks of E.M.Forster, 1929-1960, published by the University of Missouri Press.
• In the dublin review of books Maurice Earls considers the life and times of Samuel Pepys.
• You can never have enough money. Damien Hirst has opened a new
retail outlet next to Sotheby's in London. (Bloomberg)
The Wall Street Journal has a review of White Heat by Brenda Wineapple, a book on the friendship between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.