Michael Irwin's The Skull and the Nightingale (HarperCollins) is a bold and witty appropriation of the conventions, style, and idiom of the 18th-century epistolary novel that brilliantly recreates the manners, modes of thought and conduct of the teeming world of London.
Although he has not lived in the city in which he was born for decades, he recreates the city, its dialects and its tensions.
In Tianducheng, near Shanghai, a 108m-high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square; while in Chengdu, to the south-west, a residential complex for 200,000 recreates Britain's Dorchester.
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Each year a contemporary artist is invited to create the decor for a different room, there are paintings and sculptures in the lobby, garden, bar and restaurant, while even the lift is an installation that recreates a rocket launch.
These were early symptoms of the syphilis he most probably contracted during his hedonistic twenties (a period he recreates in an unusually touching story of 1890, "Mouche").
The film recreates this perfectly.
Their reading of the 1930s, he writes, is incomplete, often erroneous and has led them to settle for weak or no growth and for too-timid reform of their financial systems.Mr Eichengreen, of the University of California, Berkeley, recreates the last century's two great episodes of financial instability with compelling portraits of bankers and policymakers and accessible theoretical explanations.
Perhaps inspired by Hannah Arendt's concept of "the banality of evil", he prefers to take the viewer back in time to a period when slavery was mundane; he recreates its day-to-day practicalities and its offhand brutalities; and he leaves it to us to decide how to react.
The show recreates a suite of galleries like the original ones: paintings, sculptures and decorative objects jostle each other just as they did when Ferdinando Gonzaga organised his family collections, built up over 150 years, into a museum around 1620.
And the exhibition recreates the physicists' offices in Building 1, CERN's oldest block.
