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John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en
In 1990, the sculptor Rachel Whiteread cast the interior of the sitting room of a vacant London house in plaster of Paris to create “Ghost”, a work which the critic Jonathan Jones described as “the so
It’s a brave playwright who would make the young George Eliot his main character; invidious comparisons are bound to lurk in the wings. Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Bird Grove aims to dramatize Mary Ann Evan
George Moore Confessions of a Young Man Edited by Matthew Creasy 272pp. Modern Humanities Research Association. Paperback, £18.99. Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933
The Irish author, 62, on escaping the news through writing, staying sober and scrolling the internet for pretty things
Lola Young Eight Weeks Looking back, moving forwards, defying the odds 336pp. Penguin. Paperback, £10.99. Lola Young has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004. She is also an emeri