Writing the art

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Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Poetry and criticism are forever entwined

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

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

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