Pass the sick bag
Charles Saatchi, the gallery owner, has created his own Chamber of Horrors in this thick, square book, ‘inspired by striking…
Layers of meaning
An untitled photograph by Jerry Uelsmann from 1991 shows a rock like Magritte’s floating in the sky between an Ansel…
How to read well
What the title promises is not found inside. It is a tease. John Sutherland says he has ‘been paid one…
Madrid
I got Madrid utterly wrong for quite a long time. It’s a lovely city to walk in, and I thought…
Christmas Quiz
Set by Christopher Howse
The Christmas Quiz answers
Says who? 1. David Cameron. 2. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby. 3. Nick Clegg. 4. Prince…
A certain way with words
In the reminiscences of Bertie Wooster we find this: As I sat in the bathtub, soaping a meditative foot and…
Seeing double
The game that Charles Saatchi plays in The Naked Eye is to find photographs of subjects that look surprisingly like…
Reading a face
Do you think you can tell things about writers from the way they look in a painting or photograph? A…
