escapism

Russian escapism: Telluria, by Vladimir Sorokin, reviewed

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Vladimir Sorokin, old enough to have been banned in the Soviet Union, flourished in the post-Gorbachev spring, and he fled…

Adachi Museum Garden, Yasugi, Japan (From The Japanese Garden)

Nothing’s coming up roses in the garden these days

11 November 2017 9:00 am

Emotional geography is now a recognised academic subject. Is emotional botany heading the same way? This is a year for…

When escape to the sun — or even to Devon — goes horribly wrong

7 November 2015 9:00 am

A character in Sophie Hannah’s A Game for All the Family (Hodder, £14.99, pp. 432) presents a theory: ‘Mysteries are…