Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, Short Stories - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:36 - 0 Comments
Short Story: “Permission”
Ben White Abu Samer scratched his belly and ignored the coffee on the table. He was watching the news. The volume was loud and the reporter urgently insistent, but his mind wandered. Every few minutes his wife Imm Samer would crash together some pans in the kitchen, and Abu Samer would stir, shift his weight […]
Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:55 - 0 Comments
Death of a genius
By many accounts, David Foster Wallace was the greatest American writer of the past 50 years.Arts & Culture - Friday, January 9, 2009 4:54 - 0 Comments
Mark Curtis reveals a very British contempt for democracy
Ben Rath Mark Curtis (2003) Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World (London: Vintage) (2004) Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses (London, Vintage) Myth and illusion have always been central to the working of imperial power; how often we hear the lofty rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and human rights to justify aggression and […]
Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 16:03 - 1 Comment
Review – Le Grand Voyage
Against his wishes, Reda (Nicolas Cazale), a young French man, is forced to drive his Moroccan father from the south of France to make the 'hajj', the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:56 - 0 Comments
Review – The Treatment
Review – The Treatment Written by Martin Crimp. Directed by Sam Grafton. Hicham Yezza First, a disclaimer: I’m NOT a Martin Crimp fan, too many of his lines have that Becket-light scent as far as am concerned, but after watching this, I at least, at last, understand why it won (among other things) the John […]Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:52 - 0 Comments
Review – Road to Guantanamo
Review – Road to Guantanamo (dir. Michael Winterbottom) by Alistair Nixon In Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Henry Perowne speaks of September 11th 2001 as his eighteen year old son’s induction into international affairs; “his initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers was intense, but he adapted quickly.” It is a statement that is […]
Arts & Culture - Friday, February 3, 2006 1:38 - 0 Comments
Review – Takk, by Sigur Ros
Iceland has a proud tradition when it comes to producing quite remarkable musical talent, and Sigur Ros's latest offering is no exception.
