Bookmarking the BFI London Film Festival
The 69th edition of the UK’s biggest celebration of film offers an exciting programme of some 250 features, shorts, series and immersive works, giving audiences a first look at new films by the world’s leading creators. Covering every genre, featuring new talent alongside established names, there really is something for everyone. With a host of...
Heirlooms
As a devourer of fiction, I tend to swallow untruths whole. If a story can hold my attention, if it can make me care deeply enough about its characters, then my disbelief becomes a feather which I will gladly suspend for as long as it takes to see them through their trials. So Gregor Samsa...
Between Nabokov and Fleming
Read more and buy the book David Gilbert’s archly entertaining and insightful novel & Sons, about a once-lauded novelist reaching out to his estranged family, was published in the US to rave reviews that variously compared his storytelling, mastery of language and observational skills to Dostoyevsky, Ford Madox Ford, Proust and Nabokov. As the book...
