Barack Obama: A Promised Land
The long-awaited memoir from the 44th US president weighs in at a hefty 700 pages, as Obama shares thoughts and feelings from his meteoric rise and time in office. The […]
Category Archives: Other media…
Antkind – Charlie Kaufman
Self-absorbed film critic B. Rosenberger Rosenberg stumbles on what may be the greatest cinematic acheivement of all time in the apartment of an eldery African American gentleman. But the work […]
The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story
I always assumed that catching bits of Naked Jungle would be the TV memory that scarred me to the day I gratefully died, until I sat through The People v. […]
Been So Long: My Life and Music
The autobiography of Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen is now out in paperback, a book so beautiful it quite literally attracts butterflies. Been So Long charts the musician’s journey from […]
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
As these are “unprecedented times” (by which I mean a year without Eurovision), here’s a book review: the new novel by the great horror writer Grady Hendrix, in which a […]
Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (Johnny Lee Miller) faces the consequences of the maddest experiment since they made that reality TV host US President, in this production from the National Theatre. […]
National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night
On the twelfth night of lockdown the NT gave to me… a screening of Twelfth Night for freeee. Currently available for free on YouTube, Shakespeare’s gender-bending romcom is well-suited to […]
Boney M. at Boisdale
On the day of Britain’s exit from one European institution we went to see another, legendary German hit machine Boney M., credited with bringing steel drums to disco music. With […]
Tutankhamun: The Farewell Tour
As part of his final world tour, the original child star Tuntankhamun comes to the Saatchi Gallery in London before taking up permanent residence at a brand spanking new museum […]
Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth
The sequel to 2017’s La Belle Sauvage, and the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust ‘equel’ trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth is set nearly two decades later, and […]
