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‘Do you hate me, James?’ Dixon wanted to rush at her and tip her backwards in the chair, to make a deafening rude noise in…
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The novel Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny, opens with the following lines: His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to…
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I recently inherited a splendid shelf-full of P G Wodehouse in a hand-tooled Folio edition. My shelf of Wodehouse But where to begin? Pondering this…
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When I was 8, my friend Barbara Stewart used to receive a package of DC and Marvel comics every few weeks from a relative. We…
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Saroo, a tiny boy, arrives confused, in Calcutta. He does not speak Bengali and has no family or friends or idea where he is. Lion is…
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When was the last time you punched the air and said “yesssssssssss!”? If you want to understand me a bit, read on. Air-punching is the…
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One wonderful feature of Austria is the survival of independent cinemas. Austrians do not admit this. They complain that independent cinemas are dead or dying…
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I know. You can’t really review a whole country. Railway station in Chennai – all photos Robert Pimm Especially not India: more than 13 times…
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A review of the forthcoming thriller Atomic Blonde describes it as “the biggest action role for a woman on screen to date”. Sounds good to me. Atomic…
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‘I saw this terrible news today.’ My friend, a sensible person, is distressed. ‘A terrorist group is breeding babies to be brought up as fresh…
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A man stands halfway along a long, deserted alleyway. Autumn leaves blow in the wind. A woman approaches, walking slowly. Will she stop? Or will…
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A young black man goes with his white girlfriend to see her parents at their remote woodland mansion. Bad things happen. See the trailer. A…
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When I knew I would be moving to Vienna, but before this was widely known, I changed the heading on my Twitter account to a new…
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No-one is allowed to applaud. After each item the audience stirs, a captive beast, constrained – and stays silent. Only after 15 performances – seven readings by…
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Since I published my review of Vienna cafes a couple of weeks ago it has become one of my most popular posts. It has also…
