Joris Karl Huysmans

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Stuff, it’s just stuff, but revealing stuff. Photograph: iStock
Can a list of someone’s stuff double as literature?
  • Books
  • July 19, 2018, 06:30

For three years, the French writer Thomas Clerc cloistered himself in his 50sq m Parisian apartment, compiling an annotation of his possessions, inclu(...)

Detail from ‘Dancers Resting’ by Edgar Degas: ‘The dancers’ faces are simian masks.’ Heritage Foundation, Lausanne
A grumbling genius? Impressions of Degas

A debate as old as Impressionism itself has been revived by an exhibition taking place this spring and summer in Giverny, the Mecca of the movement(...)