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Summoning Pearl Harbor

Thursday, December 7, 2017

A commemoration of Pearl Harbor, through Alexander Nemerov’s ekphrastic explorations. — For The Oldie

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged air travel, Aleutian Islands, Alexander Nemerov, America, Congress, David Zwirner Books, ekphrasis, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hawaii, history, Japan, Jimmy Roosevelt, navy, Stanford, The Oldie, USMC, war | Comments (0)

Pissing Figures: 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (transl. Jeff Nagy) David Zwirner Books, 168pp, £11.95 . From a Cimabue cherub to Szydlowski/-lowska’s Lenin, simply everyone is pissing. In pen and ink, paint on canvas, plaster, wood, stone, polymer, block prints, engraving, chamber pots, aquatints, dishware, film, manuscripts, inlay, public statuary, trick-photography, and in a Japanese video […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Abraham Bosse, Andrew Lincoln, Bartosz Szydlowski, books, Christ, Cimabue, criticism, Cupid, David Zwirner Books, history, Japan, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, Jeffrey Lebowski, Lenin, Malgorzata Szydlowska, Mars, Michelangelo, Paula Radcliffe, sex, Snow White, The Amorist, the French, Titian, urine | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, August 28, 2017

. On the body of a man who committed suicide in the canal at New Gravel Lane, Stepney, a hospital card was found marked “delusions”.’ — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 6 1909 . The new Norwegian Bible translation is by no means a rush job. Gieves & Hawkes is the cheapest Top 10 London tailor. […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, antelopes, Charles X, children, China, clothing, cricket, death, Egypt, engineering, England, finance, Gieves & Hawkes, giraffes, kung fu, London, Natalie Imbruglia, Nelson Evening Mail, Norwegian, Pukka Pies, religion, Rudolf Hess, sex, Shostakovich, Spandau Prison, Sri Lanka, Victor Hugo, West Indies, work, writing | Comments (0)

Eight debut novels

Monday, September 1, 2014

Currently sitting at 12 to 1 for this year’s Booker Prize, first-time novelist Paul Kingsnorth has set the cat among the pigeons through the disarmingly original expedient of submitting his offering in a fictional language. Composed in what Kingsnorth calls the ‘shadow tongue’ of ‘eald anglisc’, The Wake (Unbound 365pp £16.99) explores one angle of […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Aaron Thier, Afghanistan, America, Anglia, Bangladesh, Bilal Tanweer, Bloomsbury, books, business, Cindy Crawford, debuts, Deepti Kapoor, Delhi, drugs, education, finance, Galley Beggar Press, Granta Books, history, India, Jonathan Cape, Jonathan Gibbs, Katherine Faw Morris, Literary Review, London, maths, NGOs, Normans, novels, Oxford, Pakistan, Paul Kingsnorth, Picador, politics, Sarah Perry, Saxons, Serpent's Tail, sex, slavery, Unbound, writing, Zia Haider Rahman | Comments (0)

End of the Line

Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North By Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus 448pp £16.99) ‘We will die, and who will ever understand any of this?’ So asks Colonel Dorrigo Evans, second in command of the Australian Imperial Force’s 2/7th Casualty Clearing Station, slave worker on the Siam–Burma ‘Death Railway’, and redoubtable hero of Richard […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Australia, Basho, Burma, Egypt, haiku, health, Japan, Literary Review, Miles Franklin Literary Award, novels, PoWs, Richard Flanagan, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, war | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.13

Saturday, April 28, 2012

David Walliams does Roald Dahl, AA Gill does Mary Beard, and I do children’s literature, Little Britain, Donald Sturrock, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sunday Times, Romans, the Daily Mail, Cicero, Bettany Hughes, Time Team, the Cambridge Latin Course, constipation, movie posters, The Ides of March, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The English Patient, […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged AA Gill, Bettany Hughes, Cicero, constipation, David Walliams, Donald Sturrock, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neill, film, history, Kenneth Branagh, Latin, Mary Beard, Max Brod, posters, radio, Roald Dahl, Romans, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, theartsdesk, TV | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.11

Saturday, April 14, 2012

An Easter holiday special, in which we take in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Ancient Egypt, the Grand Tour, stuffed birds, Congolese objets d’art, camera-less photography, amateur collectors, wunderkammern/cabinets of curiosity, Bruce Chatwin, Nicky Hirst, madeleine moments, Broomhill Sculpture Park, sculpture in general, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Carol Peace, Jake Rusby, Mike Roles, Dartington Crystal, Swedes, […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Ancient Egypt, birds, books, Britain's Got Talent, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Bruce Chatwin, Carol Peace, Dartington Crystal, Exeter, Gnome Reserve, Greil Marcus, Jake Rusby, jazz, Jenny Diski, madeleine moments, Mike Roles, music, Nicky Hirst, photography, Poetry, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, sculpture, Swedes, the Congo, The Doors, theartsdesk, travel, TV, Twitter | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.10

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Featuring news and views on the espionage du jour, Peter Taylor, Homeland, Spooks, Rubicon, Tinker Tailor…, Ben Macintyre, Americans, Russians, the Chinese, Rwandans, Charlie Dutton Gallery, TASCHEN, FUSE magazine, typographics, computers, Garamond, rubber bands, Marshal McLuhan, Akira The Don, Pink Floyd, ABBA, YouTube, and lollies. — For theartsdesk

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged ABBA, Akira The Don, Americans, Ben Macintyre, books, Charlie Dutton Gallery, Chinese, computers, FUSE, Garamond, graphic design, Homeland, lollies, Marshal McLuhan, music, Peter Taylor, Pink Floyd, rubber bands, Rubicon, Russians, Rwandans, spies, Spooks, TASCHEN, theartsdesk, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, TV, YouTube | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.4

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Carry on up the hillbillies, the questionable merits of Aïda, and why the CIA employs so many jazz nerds. — For theartsdesk

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Aïda, CIA, Egypt, Hamlet, Hieronymus Bosch, jazz, John le Carré, Kings of Leon, opera, plaid, radio, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, theartsdesk, Verdi | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.3

Saturday, February 18, 2012

In which Whitney Houston spoils my Valentine’s evening. — For theartsdesk

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Alexander McCall Smith, David Shrigley, Elizabethans, film, John Banville, Julian Fellowes, literature, Lucian Freud, Minette Walters, music, National Portrait Gallery, Ricky Gervais, Sir Paul McCartney, Terry Pratchett, The Beatles, theartsdesk, Tracy Chevalier, TV, Valentine's Day, Whitney Houston, Yorkshire | Comments (0)

Tag Archives: art

Summoning Pearl Harbor

An honest pisstake

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Eight debut novels

End of the Line

theASHtray, vol.13

theASHtray, vol.11

theASHtray, vol.10

theASHtray, vol.4

theASHtray, vol.3

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