Artist Simon Fujiwara’s Warped Take on a Choose Your Own AdventureMark RappoltArtReview02 September 2021‘Who the Baer’ at Fondazione Prada, Milan explores dream-reality confusion via the life and times of a cartoon bear
How Else Could Independence Be Won? Joseph Andras, ‘Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us’Mark RappoltArtReview22 July 2021Andras’s debut novel follows the final months in the life of Fernand Iveton, a (real-life) Communist member of Algeria’s National Liberation Front
Megha Majumdar Merges Thriller with Social Commentary in Today’s IndiaMark RappoltArtReview15 July 2021‘A Burning’, the author’s debut novel, is a story about the push and pull of desire and its frustration, and the price people will pay to live their dreams
Art and ‘Everyday Reality’ in ChinaMark RappoltArtReview Asia07 July 2021A new history of art in post-Mao China and a study of the fate of the country’s rural hometowns – reviewed
Mika Tajima: Illusions of ControlMark RappoltArtReview26 April 2021The New York-based artist gives shape to the psychic effects of life under a technocapitalist regime
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s ‘Open Water’: a Tale of Seeing and Being SeenMark RappoltArtReview13 April 2021Nelson’s novel – a love story, set in South London – encourages a peculiar solidarity between narrator and reader
‘Our People Were There Too’: on Sathnam Sanghera’s ‘Empireland’Mark RappoltArtReview22 March 2021The Times journalist’s new book examines how contemporary Britain remains shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how it is acknowledged today
