Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Salman Rushdie Madame Bovary remains a powerful

Madame Bovary remains a powerful and scintillating novel

lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book

Mario Puzo’s epic was turned into the incomparable film of the same name

Photographs and Reflections by Paul McCartney

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Salman Rushdie Madame Bovary remains a powerful'Never has a publication been more timely' Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their