Early in Anita Desai’s Rosarita, a daughter remembers a family jointly (or so it seems) pondering, during a specific dinner where her mother broke the codes that hold together middle-class families with servants, and other revelatory incidents, that mother’s ‘unsuitability for a wife’. In a generalised point of view within Desai’s elegant prose, told largely … More This blog looks for what is truly revolutionary in Anita Desai’s (2024) ‘Rosarita’.

Seeing in person Tate Modern’s retrospective Modern’s Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider on July 21st at  15.30, with our dear friend Catherine. Geoff, Me and Catherine in the sun outside the BFI Café, photograph by Catherine. I have already written a preparatory blog (on June 19th, 2024) relating to my expectations of this … More Seeing in person Tate Modern’s retrospective ‘Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider’ on July 21st at 15.30.

Seeing in person the British Museum’s reconstruction of the elder Michelangelo in Michelangelo: The last decades on July 21st at 12.30 with our dear friend Catherine. Geoff, Me and Catherine in the sun outside the BFI Café, photograph by Catherine. Geoff and I met our dear friend Catherine at the café pf the British Film … More Seeing in person the British Museum’s reconstruction of the elder Michelangelo in ‘Michelangelo: The last decades’ on July 21st at 12.30 with our dear friend Catherine.

‘This is not quite what I remembered’, says Susannah Clapp, the theatre critic of The Observer of mnemonic at the National Theatre who had also seen the original production.[1] Clearly she could not have said this had she read with understanding Simon Burney’s fragment discussing the genesis of this ‘revival’ in Complicité: Mnemonic [A Site],  … More This blog is about eventually seeing ‘Mnemonic’ for myself in the Olivier Theatre at 7.30 p.m. 10th July 2024.