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Archive for the ‘My journalism’ Category
February 12th, 2010
Give a clown a gun and whaddya got?
February 10th, 2010
Vampires: Why They Bite
If you want to have another look at tonight’s BBC3 show, ‘Vampires: Why They Bite’, which was presented by the brilliant Lisa Hilton, then jog on over to BBC iPlayer. You will spot me banging on about the historical significance of the vampire myth at several points.
February 6th, 2010
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
When you read the Millennium books it’s both easy and difficult to see why they have been so successful. Difficult, because Larsson is not a good writer. His plots are long, flabby and tenuous. Some of his action scenes are risible. Larsson’s descriptions of violence against women - his favourite hobby horse - are mawkish and distastefully graphic. Easy because Larsson invented a truly original character…
Do wander over to GQ.com to read my latest books piece. This week I reconsidered Stieg Larsson and his ‘Millennium’ trilogy, in advance of the UK release of ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ in UK cinemas on March 10th.
The piece is here.
And this is the Swedish film trailer:
January 26th, 2010
Inside Out, by Peter Watt
This week’s GQ.com review is of ‘Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal and Cowardice at the Heart of New Labour’ by Peter Watt. Read it here.
January 20th, 2010
GQ column
Do please trot on over to GQ.com to read my review of Antonia Fraser’s Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter (W&N, £20).
December 2nd, 2009
Books of the Year 2009
There have been plenty of brilliant history books this year, despite the general gloom. Do click through here to read my round-up of the best of them, from The Times.
My Evening Standard column
I am covering Sam Leith’s beat while he’s away. Read my Evening Standard column here. Enjoyment guaranteed, or your money back. I can say that, now the Evening Standard is free.