Changing trains at summit

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Away from his day job as The National’s lugubrious frontman, MATT BERNINGER has reached back into his Ohio upbringing for a ruminative new solo record. But behind the childhood tales of gang fights, drowned train cars and Christmas tree farms lurks midlife melancholy. “I’m writing about trying to understand my own fear,” he tells Laura Barton

The shared struggles of Hieronymous Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge

Poetry and criticism are forever entwined

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Colm Tóibín meditates on Pat Steir’s painting ‘Night’