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Take your mind off Armageddon
GAVIN O’TOOLE is taken by a book that offers a tactile source of pleasure that is just as addictive as using a smartphone
PLANET ESCHER: tailor-made diversion for stressful times
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
MC Escher: Kaleidocycles
Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker
Taschen £34.15
IF DOOMSCROLLING has become a bad habit in an era when the pandemic and war force your nervous fingers to obsessively seek out breaking news of the apocalypse, then Kaleidocycles is the perfect antidote.
It is a tailor-made diversion for stressful times that requires you to turn off your screen and use your hands more creatively in order to assemble intriguing card patterns inspired by the work of MC Escher.
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