Edited by critic/curator Michael Peppiatt, with a forward by novelist Colm Toibin, "Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words" arrives at a propitious moment. Bacon’s paintings have set world record-breaking prices at auction.
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Strung along the Atlantic coast, tranquil Rabat often flies under the radar, but travellers who make it to the Moroccan capital will discover a feast of architectural treasures, first-class museums and a striking, spacious medina.
In her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be.
Like many readers, I suspect, I first came across the name Mohammed Mrabet in relation to Paul Bowles. Throughout the sixties, seventies, and eighties, everyone from
Life magazine to
Rolling Stone sent writers and photographers to Tangier where Bowles had been living since 1947 to interview the famous American expat, author of the cult classic
The Sheltering Sky. “If Paul Bowles, now seventy-four, were Japanese, he would probably be designated a Living National Treasure; if he were French, he would no doubt be besieged by television crews from the literary talk show