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Masterpieces: Susanna Bathing by Albrecht Altdorfer

Masterpieces is an occasional series of short essays on works of art, inspired by the late Tom Lubbock’s ‘Great Works’. Follow me here or…

5 min readMay 28, 2020

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Masterpieces: Susanna Bathing by Albrecht Altdorfer

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Tim Smith-Laing

Masterpieces: Martino Martini by Michaelina Wautier

Masterpieces is a series of short essays on works of art. Inspired by the late Tom Lubbock’s ‘Great Works’, a fresh piece will be put up…

4 min readMay 15, 2020

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Masterpieces: Martino Martini by Michaelina Wautier

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: John Lanchester, The Wall

‘None of us can talk to our parents’, says Kavanagh, the narrator of John Lanchester’s The Wall. He is speaking from an undefined…

3 min readOct 20, 2019

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Review: John Lanchester, The Wall

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: Geoff Dyer, ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: On Where Eagles Dare

I finished ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’, fittingly enough, in the queue for a film. A very different film to Where Eagles Dare, though…

4 min readOct 16, 2019

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Review: Geoff Dyer, ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: On Where Eagles Dare

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: Charlotte Higgins, Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths

The word ‘clue’ is a fragment of myth living on undercover in everyday English. It is Middle English, clew, originally, for a ball of…

4 min readOct 14, 2019

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Review: Charlotte Higgins, Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: A.M. Homes, Days of Awe

The first few tales in Days of Awe could be read as a parodic comment on the modern American short story. If what you want from your…

4 min readOct 12, 2019

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Review: A.M. Homes, Days of Awe

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Tim Smith-Laing

George Braque

How often do you look at an object while staying stock still? Not often, if ever. Even if you stay in one place, your eyes do not: you…

3 min readOct 11, 2019

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George Braque

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Like the preceding four volumes of his Incerto project, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game is generically uncategorisable. In common…

5 min readOct 10, 2019

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Review: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now

By the end of the first 50 pages of his new book, Steven Pinker has divided the world into two groups, the reasonable and the unreasonable…

5 min readOct 8, 2019

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Review: Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now

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Tim Smith-Laing

Review: Edward O. Wilson The Origins of Creativity

A version of this review originally appeared in The Telegraph in October 2017.

4 min readOct 5, 2019

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Review: Edward O. Wilson The Origins of Creativity

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Tim Smith-Laing

Tim Smith-Laing

Writer, reviewer, listener. Books @TelegraphBooks, art @apollomag & @frieze_magazine, misc @the_junket, & funnies and art @1843mag. www.timsmith-laing.com

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