ESSAYS
You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing
Dear Peter: An Open Letter to “My Uncle the Artist”
What I Loved: Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
SHORT FICTION
THE QUIETUS
Vivid Perspectives: On Bernard MacLaverty’s Midwinter Break
A String of Pearls: Reflections On Deborah Levy’s The Cost Of Living
Look, Look, Look Again: The Spurious Studios Of Andrew Grassie
Surreal Estate: London Stock At Safehouse Peckham
THE GUARDIAN
Best new paperbacks: David Szalay, Madeleine Thien and Dave Eggers
How to lead a more fulfilling life – neuroscientists, life coaches and doctors share their advice
Author Jessica Norrie: ‘Everything in the plot of your novel must be there for a reason’
Lyn Gardner on theatre criticism: ‘As long as there is art, there will be critics’
Julian Baggini on writing non-fiction: ‘Don’t settle for good enough but don’t demand perfection’
Comment writing: Guardian columnists share their tips on presenting an opinion with confidence
Author Helen Barbour: ‘I want to increase understanding of mental health issues through my writing’
Crime writer P.D. Viner: ‘You need to read and write a lot, but it’s a great life’
‘Night walks are a great tonic for urban stress’: your stories of the nocturnal city – Reader contribution to Guardian Cities
AESTHETICA MAGAZINE
Exhibition review: Pronoia, Paranoia In Reverse, 12 Felstead St, London
Tate launch new UK partnership with EY and major Paul Klee exhibition
Exhibition review: Lure, Kate MccGwire, All Visual Arts, London
Exhibition review: Zarina Bhimji at Whitechapel Gallery
Exhibition review: Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed, Santiago Sierra, Lisson Gallery
A Matter of Life and Death and Singing: Exploring art by Jimmie Durham
Exhibition review: Marcel Dinahet, Domobaal gallery, London
Exhibition review: We Invented Halloween, Michael Fortune, PEER Gallery, London
Exhibition review: Asymmetrical Cinema, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
A-N MAGAZINE
Exhibition review: Arena, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria
EXHIBITION LITERATURE
OPEN DEMOCRACY
THE FUTURE STATE – a creative research project in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London
Gone Girl and Broken Harbour: Contemporary Ghost Towns and the ‘Murdering Middle Classes’