‘Girls Against God’: Jenny Hval’s Genre-Bending Novel, ReviewedMark RappoltArtReview28 October 2020The author kicks against the pricks of a male pantheon
Rediscovered: Kamala Markandaya’s ‘The Coffer Dams’Mark RappoltArtReview Asia26 October 2020The 1969 novel, set in newly-independent India, takes us to the roots of some of the key conflicts that have shaped our present
11th Berlin Biennale Review – Exhausting but RewardingMark RappoltArtReview18 September 2020Drawing its title from the work of poet Iman Mersal, The Crack Begins Within gathers artists who largely identify with the Global South
Jacob Fabricius on Directing Busan Biennale 2020Mark RappoltArtReview Asia04 September 2020‘It has been very humbling to see and experience how the artists have worked around the pandemic’
Artist Kimsooja Plants the Seed of an IdeaMark RappoltArtReview Asia05 August 2020How the artist reframes aspects of life we think of as ‘normal’ through her explorations of the poetry of the ordinary and the everyday
Delusions of the West: on Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Bland Fanatics’Mark RappoltArtReview Asia28 July 2020A collection of essays considers the hustlers and ‘chumocrats’ that fill our public intellectual life, and the enduring language of imperialism
The Quiet Resistance in Gordon Parks’s Photographs of Black AmericaMark Rappoltartreview.com23 July 2020The pioneering photographer’s documentation of discrimination, violence and a system that forced compliance, presages today’s prison industrial complex
