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...Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 collects abstract art made by women artists in the 20 years following the second world war, featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth, Sheila Hicks, Agnes...
...the mould of Shuggie Bain’s proud but chaotic Agnes....
...Summer, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99, 400 pages The final volume in Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet channels all the stress and unease of 2020....
...Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar (Hamish Hamilton £14.99), set in present-day India, contrasts the memories of Tara and Antara — mother and daughter, resentful of one another — as Tara’s mind is ravaged by dementia...
...The Testaments , by Margaret Atwood, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20/Nan A Talese, RRP$28.95 The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale is narrated by three women with contrasting experiences of Gilead: Agnes, a commander...
...With 26,000 Instagram followers, O’Dell has worked with a range of fashion brands, from Mr Porter and Calvin Klein to men’s loungewear label Hamilton and Hare....
...Photographs: Anthea Hamilton; Victoria Birkinshaw...
...Hamilton doesn’t quite get inside Best’s head, but then perhaps nobody ever did....
...You Free from the Past By Boris Cyrulnik Translated by David Macey Penguin £9.99, 320 pages FT Bookshop price: £7.99 The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids By Tom Hodgkinson Hamish Hamilton...
...Mr Hamilton zeroed in on my sloppy punctuation. Miss McRae made me learn 100 poems off by heart. Miss Musgrave made it clear she thought I had a bit of flair....
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