Spare me the residential ‘reimagining’. A planter or two is hardly Haussmann’s Paris | Rachel Cooke
Lots of fashionable words ring alarm bells, but the one that’s giving me the pip right now is “reimagine”. Sure, it’s fine to assert that in her novel Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys reimagines elements of Jane Eyre. But can the same ever really be said of an apartment block or a hamburger? Its deployment…