Alice Spawls is the co-editor of the ‘London Review of Books’.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1943), Dorothea Tanning. Tate Collection.
'Giselle' (1841), performed by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, London, in 2018, in a production using designs from 1985 by John Macfarlane, photo: Helen Maybanks; © ROH 2018
Girl Behind a Screen (detail; 1952), Leonard Rosoman.
Hurvin Anderson photographed in his studio in London in August 2016. Photo by Jooney Woodward