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Posts by Sarah Birch

‘I wanted to write about women making the city their own’: Author Gemma Seltzer on how the streets of East London influenced her new book

By Sarah Birch | Monday 18 October 2021 at 12:46

The writer spent the pandemic wandering the capital, and has used the experience to craft a ‘magnetic collection of short stories’

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Noguchi, Barbican Art Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Blurring the line between representational and abstract’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 11 October 2021 at 15:21

Major retrospective on the work of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi is ‘breathtakingly diverse’

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Victoria Park, Gemma Reeves, book review: ‘Subtle picture of a place that could in some senses be anywhere’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 27 September 2021 at 13:38

The author’s debut novel uses 12 loosely-connected stories to build a portrait of the area’s complex history

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Address Book, Neil Bartlett, book review: ‘A treat for all readers, gay and straight alike’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 17 September 2021 at 11:02

The author and theatre director’s ‘poignant’ fifth novel explores the gay experience through history

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The Roles We Play, Sabba Khan, book review: ‘Laden with paradox and rich in nuance’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 16 August 2021 at 10:57

This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’

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Hyangmok Baik: Forgotten By Us, Beers Gallery, exhibition review: ‘The more one looks, the more one sees’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 July 2021 at 08:21

The Korean painter’s solo show is ‘full of colour and off-beat imagery’

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Common Ground, Naomi Ishiguro, book review: ‘A modern-day Howards End’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 24 June 2021 at 09:28

The Stoke Newington novelist’s ‘highly readable’ debut is ‘destined to challenge not a few facile assumptions’

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‘Phantasmagoric imagery’ on show at Royal Drawing School’s annual student exhibition

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 17:37

Over 550 drawings are on display at the school in Shoreditch

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Desde el Salón, Whitechapel Gallery: ‘A welcome antidote to the anxiety of variants’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 9 June 2021 at 09:03

Artist Sol Colero’s curation of works usually confined to the offices of an insurance company makes you think again about the world of corporate art

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One Hundred Years, Jenny Lewis, book review: ‘Life going by in a richly textured community’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 3 June 2021 at 10:50

The photographer’s portraits of unique local characters cover a century of Hackney’s ‘passion and fortitude’

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Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Art of the people, not the academy’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 21 May 2021 at 08:28

The French painter’s ‘anarchic rage against the establishment’ will touch a chord with many’

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National turbulence, local tranquility: Decoding Hackney’s by-election results

By Sarah Birch | Monday 17 May 2021 at 14:03

An analysis of the borough’s political landscape following 6 May polls in four wards

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Through the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘A great way to put your own eyewear to use’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 26 April 2021 at 10:31
Author Travis Elborough

The local author turns his lens to the instruments that help him and an estimated four billion others navigate the world

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Anne Hardy: Rising Heat, Maureen Paley: ‘A piece of waste becomes a diaphanous pink ghost’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 22 April 2021 at 10:09

The first show at the gallery’s new Studio M is ‘well worth a visit’

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Peterdown, David Annand, book review: ‘Captivating parable about how we understand place’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 13 April 2021 at 13:43

The local author’s 600-page debut novel elevates the abstruse business of council planning into an ‘engrossing’ prod at life’s big questions

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Photographs by young refugees light up Shoreditch for month-long exhibition

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 17 March 2021 at 10:57

Autograph gallery repurposes electronic billboard on Old Street for illuminating #HackneyIsHome project

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Women from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 22 February 2021 at 15:51

This celebration for the upcoming Women’s History Month delves into the achievements of 113 women with connections to the borough

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Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir, Martha Leigh, book review: ‘Part love story, part history, part meditation’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 28 January 2021 at 18:49

The Hackney GP’s journey into the lives of her parents ‘probes with admirable delicacy some of the most pressing questions of our era’

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Homecoming, Luan Goldie, book review: ‘A subtle and engrossing story’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 15 January 2021 at 18:08

The Stoke Newington-based author explores, in ‘lyrical prose’, the ‘tangle of contemporary identity’

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Precious You, Helen Monks Takhar, book review: ‘A great lockdown read to gobble up and ponder’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 14 January 2021 at 17:37

The Stoke Newington author’s first novel is a ‘gloriously dark parable of envy between generations’

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