The National, March 2017 Ayobami Adebayo was fidgeting in the Lagos bank she worked in, restless, desperately bored and unfulfilled. “It was mind-numbing work,” she says. “I was terrified that if I didn’t start working […]
The National, February 2017 With enthralling tales of malevolent genies, magical lamps and a restless seafarer named Sinbad, One Thousand and One Nights is surely the Arab world’s most famous story. It continues to exert […]
The National, February 2017 In hindsight, the imminent end of Peter Capaldi’s “cosmic” ride as the 12th Doctor Who was as inevitable as a Dalek maniacally croaking “exterminate”. I spoke to Capaldi just before the […]
The National, January 2017 Unemployed, unsure, in debt, fearful, even overwhelmed – whether they are described as Generation Y or millennials, the life of Westerners who came of age in the 21st century is not […]
Shooting Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1916 – the first motion picture filmed underwater, no less – J Ernest Williamson trembled: “No words can adequately describe the sickening horror one feels when from some dark […]