Artistic Licence Sunday, March 14, 2010
By Nadine O’Regan Suffering an art attack
Immigration inspires new Irish poetry anthology Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Gerald Dawe In 1988, the year he died, the wonderfully gifted Irish playwright Stewart Parker wrote a foreword to a trilogy of plays which included Northern Star, Heavenly Bodies and the play widely regarded as his masterpiece, Pentecost.
Murdered for exposing Russia’s rotten heart Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Ed O'Loughlin When not on the road, Anna Politkovskay a brought a never ending stream of visitors to the offices of the Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading independent newspaper.
One for the knacker’s yard Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Kevin Power A few years ago, Martin Amis began his review of Robert Bly’s trenchantly heterosexual masculinity manifesto Iron John by pointing out that ‘iron’ (‘iron hoof ‘) was Cockney rhyming slang for ‘poof’.
Powerful tale of dark events is a book of two halves Sunday, March 14, 2010
Reviewed by Declan Burke The conventional crime novel tends to unfold over three acts, but Louise Welsh’s fourth novel, Naming the Bones, is very much a novel of two halves.
Counterculture London – from Soho to so what Sunday, March 14, 2010
By Andrew Lynch Barry Miles has a lot to answer for. As co-founder of the Indica bookshop and gallery, a focal point for the 1960s London underground scene, he organised an exhibition by a controversial Japanese artist called Yoko Ono.
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