Is Norway losing pride in the Nobel Peace Prize?
An exercise in following a news story to its source using tools on the Internet and Google. Why is Norway being coy about the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize?
Reviews
Reviews of books, films, exhibitions, performances etc, and my Reading Diary. Read Other Folk’s Flowers for more details or scroll down.
When is a Novelist … ?
Review of Granta number 113 discussing the definition of novelist contra short-story writer and the difficulties of anthologising novelists.
Narnia in 3D
Review of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. My first experience of a 3D film.
When I Grow Up
Review of an open-air exhibition of photographs by Patrik Andersson for Faktum the magazine sold in Gothenburg in aid of homeless people.
Millisent versus Cohiba
Comparative review of “Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime” by Jason Sanford and “Cohiba” by Lucia Puenzo, short stories in Interzone and Granta respectively.
Not now, Cora!
There are some great lines in Fantastic Voyage (some of them cited below), but I ended up going for a cheap joke at the expense of Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. I was inspired by the strip in the middle of the postcard above here, which is a still from the DVD. (What she’s actually … More…
Live, floss and prosper
The second DVD out of the box as I work through my birthday present to myself, is JJ Abram’s Star Trek from last year (2009). Taking this film as my subject here also gives me an opportunity to brush off and republish my original review. (‘Review’ doesn’t seem quite the right word, but judge for … More…
The Kitchen Diaries & Toast
A review of two books by Nigel Slater, food writer and journalist. The books were presents to me on my recent birthday.
The Habit of Art
Review of NTLive’s broadcast of London’s National Theatre production of The The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett with Richard Griffiths and Alex Jennings.
All’s Well That Ends Well
All’s Well that Ends Well – a review of the British National Theatre’s production, seen live in a cinema in Gothenburg on Thursday 1st October 2009 – the transcript of an audio recording.