One Direction’s Zayn leaves tour
The National, March 2015 “Zayn has been signed off with stress and is flying back to the UK to recuperate.” It’s just 16 simple words but a sentence to strike fear into the hearts of […]
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Raj Kamal Jha on She Will Build Him A City
The National, March 2015 It’s interview day with the Indian novelist Raj Kamal Jha, and time to cast an eye over The Indian Express, the newspaper of which he is chief editor. Amid news of […]
Gaiutra Bahadur’s coolie odyssey
The National, May 2014 The year was 1903 and a Brahmin woman set sail from Kolkata for a new life in the Caribbean. It wasn’t as exotic as it now sounds. Those on board suffered […]
The Spy With 29 Names by Jason Webster
The Observer, May 2014 At the end of this absorbing portrayal of Juan Pujol – the Catalan second world war double agent who was so good he won both the iron cross and an MBE – Jason […]
Neil Finn on scaling Dizzy Heights
The National, May 2014 Think Crowded House — and its enduringly agreeable songwriter Neil Finn — and the lascivious baritone croon of Barry White is probably the last artist who springs to mind. After all, […]