Dr Peter Fifield on Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March. Trans. Michael Hofmann. London: Granta, 2002. Alongside that of Stefan Zweig, the English publication of Joseph Roth’s writings during the past couple of decades has marked the belated arrival in Britain of two distinctive, Jewish voices speaking of
Joseph Brooker on Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald is a writer on ecology and the history of science affiliated to the University of Cambridge. She is also an experienced falconer, who grew up fascinated by birds of prey and learned to handle
Joseph Brooker on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Every year the Nobel Prize for Literature generates speculation, lobbying and betting. Some names come up repeatedly. This time Haruki Murakami was said to be surging, before shares in Don DeLillo rose sharply. I saw someone remark online
Martin Eve & Peter Fifield on “No’s Knife” at the Old Vic Martin Eve: When I booked to see No’s Knife at the Old Vic – an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing devised and performed by Lisa Dwan – I did kind of know what I
Joseph Brooker on Fredric Jameson, Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality At ten o’clock I was in my office looking across at Fredric Jameson. I was listening to him too. He gave you a lot to listen to. ‘I find my neighbor unlocking his mailbox;
Joanne Winning at the Harry Ransom Center, Texas This summer I have been on a Research Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas in Austin. The Ransom Center has one of the most extensive collections of modernist papers, manuscripts and artefacts
Prof. Martin Eve on The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson, performed by the RSC at the Barbican Centre Last weekend I saw a very fine production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist at the Barbican Centre. This play, for those who don’t know, centres around the exploits
Joseph Brooker on Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon’s third novel (2000) reimagines the origin of comic books and the superhero genre they inaugurated. In 1939, with Superman fresh on the newsstands, two Jewish teenage cousins create their own heroes.
Joseph Brooker on Lloyd Cole & The Leopards Lloyd Cole is playing Brooklyn Bowl. He once lived in New York but I don’t think this will remind him of his former home: it’s a bowling alley inside the o2 Arena. He tells us it feels
Joseph Brooker on William Eggleston, Portraits, at the National Portrait Gallery The American photographer William Eggleston (b.1939) became celebrated for his images of American people and places in the 1960s and 1970s. The National Portrait Gallery (from 21st July to 23rd October 2016) has assembled