The first major publication on Baltimore-based painter Jerrell Gibbs, whose contemplative portraits of Black sitters thrum with a vivid sense of place and reflect the complexity and emotional depth of everyday Black life.
Historical and climate fiction. British master sky and landscape painter, John Constable, is pivotal. The novel, then original play. Story two halves: Early C19th, children's weather game, lives challenging; Now, characters return in essence. Midsummer's Day. Climate game show. Constable's depression mirrors climate change. Friend's wife narrates.
Keith Vaughan's Journals merits a place among the greatest confessional writing of the twentieth century. and he would write until his suicide in 1977. Editor Alan Ross hails Vaughan's Journals as 'a self-portrait of astonishing honesty: devoid of disguise in any shape or form, or hypocrisy'.