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In March 1994, as a result of the exhibition The New Generation: Two Decades of Contemporary Cuban Photography from the Island, held at the Richmond Hall in Houston, the critic Susan Kalil published a suggestive review entitled Socialist Surrealism, in which she warned of a substantial transformation in the creative strategies of the latest promotions of Cuban photographers. Burrowed within the hints of an unusually expressive and dreamlike ambiguity, the images clearly evaded the themes and documentary tradition of Cuban photography. Legitimized in the years after the triumph of the rebels...

Libation in Hove will be able to serve alcohol to customers at tables on the pavement A BAR in Hove can serve drinks to customers seated at tables on the pavement despite objections from neighbours. Libation, in Victoria Grove, in Second Avenue, Hove, already has a pavement licence until September, allowing it to put seats in the street. But it was not allowed to serve alcohol to customers at the pavement tables until a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel gave permission. The panel said that objectors and Labour councillor Clare Moonan, who represents Central Hove ward, had...

Last modified on Sat 3 Apr 2021 23.21 EDT Longevity is the real prize for which writers strive, and it isn’t awarded by any jury. For a book to stand the test of time, to pass successfully down the generations, is uncommon enough to be worth a small celebration. For a writer in his mid-70s, the continued health of a book published in his mid-30s is, quite simply, a delight. This is why we do what we do: to make works of art that, if we are very lucky, will endure. As a reader, I have always been attracted to capacious, largehearted fictions, books that try to gather up large armfuls of the ...

Call it Simplicius Simplicissimus or The Adventures of a Simpleton - H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen's picaresque novel of the Thirty Years War is the godfather of all great anti-war literature whether solemn indictment like The Red Badge of Courage or All Quiet on the Western Front or absurdist comedy like Catch-22 or Slaughterhouse-Five.  The Adventures of a Simpleton,…

Last modified on Wed 17 Feb 2021 13.41 EST One of the tenets observed by the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who has died aged 89, was that “the scenario is created when you and the director establish a near telepathic communication. This requires, on both sides, a receptiveness and a trust which can never be taken for granted. The scriptwriter must on occasion be prepared to submerge his ego, since ultimately it’s the director’s film, and you’re there to help him, to facilitate him.” Among the film directors whom Carrière “facilitated” were Louis M...