Francis Fyfield unpicks the hidden codes of a beautiful 11th-century manuscript that confirms that the English were pioneers of musical notation long before the arrival of staves. ❋ Unknown (2009)
James McConnachie in the Sunday Times was also enthusiastic about a "thrilling book, which reads at times like a good Victorian novel": Colquhoun's book "burrows deep into the legal and journalistic issues surrounding the case, and a thoughtful afterword unpicks its profound impact on Victorian society." ❋ Unknown (2011)
In his artwork, Zanolari sucks out the botox, unpicks the stitches and removes the fake public face from his subjects. ❋ Evelyne Politanoff (2011)
Incorporating soul music, Kung Fu flicks and Star Wars into his videos and comics, this Briton unpicks pop culture and its illusions ❋ Skye Sherwin (2010)
Another January debut, Scissors, Paper, Stone Bloomsbury, by Observer journalist Elizabeth Day, deftly unpicks a daughter's troubled relationship with her mother after her father has lapsed into a coma. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The artist unpicks pop culture's illusions, uncovering a lack of selfhood that would make a martial arts master proud but has far more difficult connotations out in the world. ❋ Skye Sherwin (2010)
It's an expert piece of historical and psychological archaeology, which unpicks the (bewitching) intricacies of ordinary life while also asking the terrifying, unanswerable, yet endlessly fascinating questions that haunt us all: "What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?" ❋ Unknown (2010)
Just as Mann unpicks platitudes around childhood innocence, and proffers children's bodies as a site of adult discomfort rather than certainty, she is likewise transgressive in how her professional life impacts upon her duties as a parent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Copyright's Paradox unpicks the contradiction that has made the copyfight so compelling to so many of us: the tension between copyright as a tool to drive expressivity and creativity, and the power of copyright to censor those whose creativity involves remixing, quoting, parody and so on. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Playful and teasing, this is a play with a dark heart as it unpicks art's capacity to feed upon the horrors of the real world under cover of creativity and the imagination, asking what it does to an audience and how we become complicit. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What makes I Am Legend a brilliant novel, and not simply an intelligent character study, is the way Matheson steadily unpicks the reader's sympathy. ❋ Tim Stretton (2007)
She carefully unpicks the crocheted edge and very carefully examines her work. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Also, as Iainargues, if the North East assembly is worth a referendum then surely this treaty which unpicks the Maastricht settlement deserves one. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Armstrong, a former nun and prolific religious historian, unpicks one of the vital questions of our time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That would seem to relapse into equating arete with virtue, which the Narrator unpicks as a mistake in ZMM. ❋ Sam Norton (2006)
Glow Boys is set in an English nuclear facility and gradually unpicks some of its most salient characteristics - the elimination of 'natural' time cycles (see the illuminated motto "Where Science Never Sleeps"), the covert disregard for workers 'bodies (i.e. lives) and the creeping mutation/mutilation of surrounding' wildlife '- to talk about money, time, power relationships and human frailty. ❋ Unknown (1999)
