Ken Kalfus interview
The National, January 2014 Is there life on Mars? While H G Wells, C S Lewis and the cult 1996 B-movie Mars Attacks! might have enjoyably proposed the presence of little green men, sadly we still find […]
Ben East
Claire Messud interview
The National, November 2013 “How angry am I? You don’t want to know. Nobody wants to know about that.” The very first line of Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs is surely one of the most […]
FATIMA BHUTTO INTERVIEW
The National, December 2013 Fatima Bhutto is staring out of the window of her publisher’s office. The view down the Thames is remarkable. But Benazir Bhutto’s niece – and the daughter of the activist Murtaza […]
Table tennis reaches new heights
Vision, January 2014 Roger Federer has smashed a forehand return on it, Tiger Woods has cracked a tee-shot from it and David Coulthard performed a series of high altitude ‘donuts’ around it on his Infiniti […]
Omar Khairat interview
The National, January 2014 He won’t thank anyone for reminding him, but when Omar Khairat first joined the Cairo Conservatoire to study piano in 1959, Dubai had just built its first international airport, serving the […]