PD Smith

Books - City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality. Reviews - @GuardianBooks, @TheTLS, etc.

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2023 is almost over and I thought I’d look back at some of my favourite books of the year… 📚📚📖

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Artists rarely paint views from studios other than their own. In this work from 1807 by the German landscape painter Carl Ludwig Kaaz the view through an open window, without any figures was rare for an oil painting at the time.

[Peter Ross @PeterAlanRoss]

To mark the rechalking of the Cerne Abbas Giant, here is an extract from my book Upon A White Horse – in which I write about meeting the Giant on May Day. If you enjoy my writing, please do share.
https://t.co/xhrJeHnpcz

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@phalpern Thanks!

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It’s too hot for me in the garden but the flowers seem to love it…

[marysocontrary @so_contrary]

Pablo Picasso à Jean Cocteau (1919)

[Eye On Axis @eyeonaxis]

New York, 1952, by Ernst Haas

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@JeffOvers Beautiful!

[Tribulation @aixlabelle]

Cafétéria New-York, 1973

Bruce Davidson

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My top 10:
https://t.co/itKpseuMSo

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Very much enjoyed coming up with my top 10 for the 100 best novels in today’s @GuardianBooks!
Link to my list in the reply.

https://t.co/6c9l91BK9K

[@IanYorston @IanYorston]

Meanwhile, @Guardian are offering a list of the '100 Best Novels of All Time'

https://t.co/GlhtwNs1fK

[James Heale @JAHeale]

One for Radio 4's 'The Reunion'

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Brilliant film

[Samuel J. May @sjmay92]

M's 95th anniversary ~ A landmark in filmmaking form, Fritz Lang introduces, and masters techniques like the leitmotif and diegetic sound to create now cinematic trademarks, the film remains more audacious than most contemporary films

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

One fun thing about Germany is that you'll be reading a long piece about housing policy in a sober news weekly and then just come across something like this

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Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @TheTLS.
Link in reply…

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Bomb culture

https://t.co/FLstus4uKL

[PD Smith @PD_Smith]

Great to be asked to review four fascinating books on nuclear history for the current issue of @TheTLS.
Link in reply…

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@StephenGParker We inherited one of these too - it’s beautiful! We prune it lightly after flowering but more major pruning we do in the winter. That works for us!

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

“Oh Christ, the cook is dead”

In February 1977, a chap wrote to SPIKE MILLIGAN after reading ‘Monty: His Part in My Victory’ - the third installment of Spike’s memoirs on his life as a soldier in WW2 - with some complaints.

This was Spike’s reply.

[Clive Davis @CliveDavisUK]

I was the junior writer on the Radio 4 newsdesk at BH when the first vague reports of a radioactive cloud broke that day. The editors asked me to write it up for the lunchtime news because it seemed a relatively minor story. When Moscow finally made an announcement the 6pm