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Remembering Richard Tarlton
The forgotten life of the Elizabethan theatre's greatest star
Sep 4
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Mathew Lyons
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Re-imagining Elizabethan London
In search of the invisible city
Aug 28
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Mathew Lyons
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Ladders of escape: Joan Miró’s bizarre love triangle
A calm walk through the charged landscapes of 'Dog Barking at the Moon'
Aug 1
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Mathew Lyons
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First thoughts on Tom Lehrer
For Engelsberg Ideas: what does the death of a long-retired comedic titan tell us about his art
Jul 30
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Mathew Lyons
12
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Thomas Coryat: the first great English travel writer
From London to the Mughal court on foot (1608–16) – via Paris, the Alps, Venice, Xante, Troy, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Damascus and more
Jul 25
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Mathew Lyons
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Thomas Kyd: fragments of a life
Searching for the ghost of one of Elizabethan England's first great playwrights
Jul 18
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Mathew Lyons
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A joy for life: the gaudy, brilliant world of Damon Runyon
Runyon, my father and me
Jul 9
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Mathew Lyons
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Hosannas and hatchet jobs
The how and why of the reviews I write: pitching for commissions, the process of reading and writing, and the rules I try to stick to along the way
Jul 4
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Mathew Lyons
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Domingos Sequeira and his greenish friends
Why I fell in love with a painting in Lisbon's National Museum of Ancient Art
Jun 27
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Mathew Lyons
26
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Bad choices and dangerous friends: the fugitive promise of George Gascoigne
Why one of Elizabethan England's great literary innovators died a broken man
Jun 20
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Mathew Lyons
27
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Walking into darkness
My father, Alzheimer’s, and the ends of life
Jun 6
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Mathew Lyons
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The sense-haunted ground: landscape, memory and Normandy 1944
A long essay I wrote last year about the Battle of Normandy – now published in one piece for the first time
May 8
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Mathew Lyons
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