CroatiaHot weather has proved deadlier in the Croatian city of Osijek than in any other European city but little is being done to work out why
The green LEDs on the cross outside the pharmacy read 38C for the second day running, but the noontime crowds in the centre of Osijek seemed untroubled by the danger that signalled. “We work in the sun but for us it’s no problem,” said Davor, 47, a bike courier with the food delivery service Wolt. Read More...
Jonathan Jones on artJake and Dinos ChapmanShock horror: why art's so obsessed with the grotesqueDiabolically grotesque art – from Jonathan Payne’s sprouting finger sculptures right back to Hieronymus Bosch – has staying power because our lives have not radically changed. As long as we have bodies, we will experience body horror
Warts, growths and misplaced body parts abound in the bizarre sculptures of Jonathan Payne. A tongue with teeth, a mass of flesh sprouting fingers, an eyeball in its own little flesh sac … Don’t tell me you’re not a bit shocked or repelled or amazed. Read More...
Winter readsFiction This article is more than 12 years oldWinter reads: The Snow Goose by Paul GallicoThis article is more than 12 years oldLisa AllardiceIt may not be free from sentimentality, but this sad, sweet tale has an elemental power that makes it soarThere can be few more wintry tales than Paul Gallico's wartime classic The Snow Goose, a novella no thicker than a love letter, in which every sentence seems to shiver with the salt-laden chill of the desolate landscape in which it is set. Read More...