Richard Cotter

Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.

1760 posts by Richard Cotter

lapvona: analyse this

A fairy tale for adults, Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel, LAPVONA is laced with cannibalism, cannabis, innocence and incest, elevating excremental to sacramental.

Beginning with a bout of banditry followed by all manner of bastardry, LAPVONA rails against royalty and religion, flaying

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compartment no 6: a site for thaw ice

The romance of train travel is quickly derailed inJuho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6) an unconventional love story that takes place as two strangers share a winter train journey through the Arctic Circle.

Set to the

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ali & ava: triple a

Flying well under the radar, ALI & AVA is a bona fide gem.

Age has not withered Ava. In her fifties and from an Irish-Catholic background, Bradford born and bred, Ava is a devoted mother, grandmother and teaching assistant

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sneaky little revolutions: heightened clift hangers

Forthright, funny and with an indefinable flair, Charmian Clift’s writing plays second fiddle to nobody.

For those who’ve forgotten (impossible surely, once read, always remembered) and those yet to discover the charming Charmian, Newsouth has published SNEAKY LITTLE REVOLUTIONS, selected

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moon rabbit rising: the stuff of legend

Photos by Clare Hawley

Speechless.

Little Eggs Collective’s production of MOON RABBIT RISING is a non verbal presentation of a myth re imagined for millennia.

Inspired by the legend of 后羿 (Hou Yi) and 嫦娥 (Chang’e), Directed by Nicole Pingon

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with a mind to kill: no time to die

With a title reminiscent of an earlier Fleming short story, From A View To A Kill, Anthony Horowitz’s third and final James Bond continuation novel, WITH A MIND TO KILL picks up straight after The Man With The Golden Gun,

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the diplomat: grace, hope & charlatanry

With a title THE DIPLOMAT, you might think THE DIPLOMAT is a political thriller, some sort of far flung foreign intrigue fodder. Think again.

Chris Womersley’s novel, THE DIPLOMAT, a curiously exhilarating and unflinching portrait of low life and high

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haute couture: to dior for

A disguised advertisement for Dior? It seams sew.

In HAUTE COUTURE, Nathalie Baye plays Esther, the end of her career Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20

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