Megha Majumdar Merges Thriller with Social Commentary in Today’s IndiaMark RappoltArtReview15 July 2021‘A Burning’, the author’s debut novel, is a story about the push and pull of desire and its frustration, and the price people will pay to live their dreams
Art and ‘Everyday Reality’ in ChinaMark RappoltArtReview Asia07 July 2021A new history of art in post-Mao China and a study of the fate of the country’s rural hometowns – reviewed
Mika Tajima: Illusions of ControlMark RappoltArtReview26 April 2021The New York-based artist gives shape to the psychic effects of life under a technocapitalist regime
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s ‘Open Water’: a Tale of Seeing and Being SeenMark RappoltArtReview13 April 2021Nelson’s novel – a love story, set in South London – encourages a peculiar solidarity between narrator and reader
‘Our People Were There Too’: on Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘Empireland’Mark RappoltArtReview22 March 2021The Times journalist’s new book examines how contemporary Britain remains shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how it is acknowledged today
How Art Historian Aby Warburg Changed the Way We SeeMark RappoltArtReview16 March 2021The limits and liberations of the German scholar’s celebrated atlas of images
Mohamed Bourouissa: ‘There Is Poetry Inside the Streets’Mark RappoltArtReview05 March 2021The French-Algerian artist’s work challenges conventional notions of what is deemed of sufficient ‘importance’ to be the subject of art
