They read, they write, they drink, they have affairs, they probe, they hide, they hurtle towards their own oblivion, their lives “lived out, in order to be described”.
Category: Reviews
The mystery of the missing crime novel: Sinner Man by Lawrence Block
Half a century in the making, Sinner Man is one of crime fiction’s most exhilarating rediscoveries.
Album review: The Rolling Stones – Blue & Lonesome
The Stones aren’t just covering these songs; they’re reliving them, getting fuelled by them and translating them into their language.
Book review: The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
A modern Japanese murder mystery with a jaded worldview in need of urgent investigation.
My latest film review: Fellini – Satyricon
To watch ‘Fellini – Satyricon’ is like being sucked through a history textbook and tricked into strolling through a circus freak show, the sense of bewilderment remaining until the end credits have passed and you’re transported back into the real world having learnt little but experienced much.
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