Archive for July, 2010
Bizarre Feedback Loop
Jon Day · The Cheque's on a Bike
Odyssean Wylie
Thomas Jones · Wylie v. Random House
A Lot Like Home
Tim Johnson · Saddam Hussein's Boots
After the Coup
John Perry · Honduras, One Year On
Oh I get it, it’s a sci-fi novel!
Alex Abramovich buys David Markson's library
Only the Poor Die Young
Thomas Jones · Health and Wealth
What’s your devil score?
J. Robert Lennon plays Bret Easton Ellis's game
Defying the Ground
Thomas Jones · The Farnborough Airshow
Many a Slip
Jenny Diski · Cyanide
Apology
The Editors · Apology
Worse, a robot!
Deborah Friedell · More blurbs
Discounts for Tories
Nick Holdstock · Blackwell's Special Offer
Champagne Socialism
Hugh Miles · Congo's Champagne Imports
Wake all the dead!
Stephen Burt · 'The Poet's Tongue'
Aimlessness
Thomas Jones · Ant-Watching
Twelve Hungry Manhattanites
Elisabeth Ladenson · Jury Service in New York
I Write like Dan Brown
Christopher Tayler writes like Dan Brown
Why Does the World Contain Golf?
Glen Newey · Why Golf?
On Basil Davidson
Jeremy Harding remembers Basil Davidson
‘Acts of Mercy’
Vindictive Tendencies
Robert Hanks · Claire Bloom in 'The Bill'
Fame
Basil Davidson
Natural Monopoly
Roy Mayall · Privatising the Royal Mail
Bread and Circuses
R.W. Johnson · It's All Over
Football and Fascism
R.W. Johnson · Football and Fascism
The Death of Fadlallah
Adam Shatz · Fadlallah
Uh-oh
August Kleinzahler · Overpopulation
In Praise of Germany
R.W. Johnson · The Germans
Resource Curse
Khadija Sharife · Ghana's Oil
Settlers’ Way
R.W. Johnson · The Dutch
The Little Engine That Could
Mike Killingworth · Diane Abbott's Campaign
After the World Cup
R.W. Johnson · After the World Cup
Bags of Blood
Jon Day · The Tour de France
England’s Negative Alchemy
Paul Myerscough · Football Punditry
Pure Affectation
Deborah Friedell · Flies El Al
Fifa v. the UN
R.W. Johnson · Fifa v. the UN
Never Miss a Penalty
R.W. Johnson · What my father taught me about football
Lanky Powerhouse
William Skidelsky · Nadal v. Berdych
Unpredictability
Hugh Pennington · The Swine Flu Review
Who are these people?
Jenny Diski · What Clegg Said
Par for the Course
R.W. Johnson · Germany's Progress
The Liberty Medal
Tariq Ali · Blair's Peace Prize
Mbeki’s Vainglorious Dreams
R.W. Johnson · The Odds against Ghana