The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea of wrongness, which appears not as a fact or a verdict but as a feeling.

The war is not the only – perhaps not even the most important – form of repression driving the The Safekeep. Yael van der Wouden teaches erotic writing, and the novel is unabashedly sexy. Repressed desire thrums under nearly every paragraph. 

The RA exhibition’s aims are twofold: to introduce audiences unfamiliar with the history of Ukraine to the great diversity of artists working in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa during the first decades of the 20th century, and to challenge ‘Russo-centric’ art historical interpretations.

Being someone else’s idea of the modern image proves to be exhausting. So much of the real Peggy Guggenheim’s early life, Rebecca Godfrey said, was spent ‘trying to find a way to be something other than a wife or friend to the famous’. The arc of Peggy is her search for a style. 

Every death at Grenfell was avoidable. Every death was the result of choices – acts of negligence, carelessness, contempt, incompetence and deliberate deceit – made by individuals, corporations and elected officials.

Not unlike the God he complains about, Thomas Hardy’s smilingness is often in league with his sadism, and writing poetry was a way for him to plead innocent and guilty at the same time.