Posted in world on August 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Ready-Made Rockefeller - NYTimes.com
The man with the eccentric accent, the tantalizing hints of family fortune and the impressive conversational knowledge of everything from physics to art to the stock market is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who grew up in Germany, came to the United States as a teenage exchange student and never left, not even […]
Posted in world, humour on June 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around - Catherine Townsend, Columnists - The Independent
…my passion for British men was reignited this week after I agreed to a blind date with an American. “This guy is a writer too, and he’s really emotionally aware,” my friend Victoria said.
I should have known that this would be the death knell for […]
Posted in world, place on June 9th, 2008 No Comments »
John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris - John Lichfield, Commentators - The Independent
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Posted in world on June 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Cycling along Spaniards Road, daydreaming amid the traffic when I spot a notebook, its pages indecently splayed.I don’t stop immediately, but curiousity gets the better of me. I’m reading James Lasdun’s mystery THE HORNED MAN… as if I need an excuse.
The contents don’t intrigue; they’re just everyday jottings of a busy marketeer. Still, the trail […]
Posted in world, ethics on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
A nose for Nazis | Comment is free
The truth is that the Fritzl horror reveals precisely nothing about the Austrian people - but the rabid reaction to the Fritzl horror reveals a great deal about the sense of loss, confusion, desperation and chauvinism amongst opinion-formers here at home.
I wonder what Thomas Bernhard would […]
Posted in world on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Funny, as ever:
Armando Iannucci: It’s one small step for chumps in my brave new world | Comment is free | The Observer
So, the bulk of us achieve enough but nothing special, while historians propagate the myth that the course of mankind is set by pioneering brilliance. We are like the couples who appear […]
Posted in world on May 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
An interesting story, particularly in view of Yehoshua’s views about Israel and Jewish identity (see below):
Words Without Borders: The Soul Mate
“And your father?” I continue anxiously.
“He passed away before I could say good-bye, and it’s all your fault. You talked me into leaving and never said he might die. So now you take […]
Posted in world on May 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Interesting article by Jonahthan Rendall writing in The Observer in 2005 on ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed and the whole Sheffield/Ingle boxing scene.
An interesting pov from the memorable British Middleweight champ, Herol Graham:
A couple of miles from Hamed’s new gym is where Herol Graham now
lives. He answers the door in his tracksuit. He is looking after […]
Posted in tech, world, zeitgeist on April 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Johann Hari: It’s the policies that count and that means Londoners should vote for Ken Livingstone - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Ken Livingstone with his adenoidal, amphibian populism is the most successful left-wing politician in Europe today. Born into the white working class in the rubble of post-war London, he […]
Posted in lit, world on March 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
Essay - Martin Amis and Islam - Books - Review - New York Times
Essay
Amis and Islam
By RACHEL DONADIO
Published: March 9, 2008
“I’m a passionate multiracialist and a very poor multiculturalist,” Martin Amis said a few weeks ago. He was on the phone from London, praising his hometown’s ethnic variety — “It’s exhilarating and moving […]
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