Author Archives: Kevin Jackson
Dispatches from hell
At the peak of his powers, TS Eliot battled misery and melancholia. This second volume of his letters offers a fascinating guide to these harrowing years
Hitler’s myth-maker
Leni Riefenstahl's apologists say she was a pure aesthete who cared nothing for politics. But it was her indifference to how her talents were used that made her so repugnant
Jean-Paul Sartre
As a teenage existentialist in the 1970s, I feasted on Sartre. He had already become unfashionable in Paris, but now, on the centenary of his birth, France is coming to appreciate him again
The bipolar artist
Not since the Renaissance has a genius practised two artistic forms with equal brilliance, except Strindberg, whose paintings are as original as the plays
Reading graffiti
From pictures in a cave to aphorisms on a toilet wall, graffiti needs to be reconsidered as the purest art form
The Orwell of cinema
Celebrating the film-maker Humphrey Jennings and his wartime explorations of the British character. He was the Poet Laureate of 1940s cinema
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