Copy: The National, 2/11/11 >> The outpouring of grief surrounding Steve Jobs death was interesting. Was there the same public display of affection when John Logie Baird, inventor of the television, died in 1946? And […]
Copy: The National, 29/10/11 >> Here’s a suitably monstrous story for Halloween. Hoxton Street Monster Supplies in London has been running for nearly a year now, selling jars of Thickest Human Snot, balls of Fang Floss […]
Copy: The National, 27/10/11 >> When Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon broke up last week, there were plenty of distraught fans worried that it might signal the end of the band. No more songs like […]
Copy: The National, 26/10/11 >>On Sunday I went to the International Prize For Arabic Fiction event at Manchester Literature Festival. At which I learned that it’s not considered very PC to call it the Arabic […]
Copy: The National 25/10/11 >>I’ll be honest, airport thrillers are not the books I usually turn to. But I’d heard lots of good reports about Peter James, and in the week when there was so […]