FICTIONAL FOOD EATEN IN CHILDRENS BOOKS #2: Toffee Trees
In The Magician’s Nephew, Digory plants a toffee which in the enchanted soil of Narnia grows overnight into a toffee-tree. “The fruit was delicious; not exactly like toffee?softer f[…]

FICTIONAL FOODS EATEN IN CHILDRENS’ BOOKS
1: Stuff in the larder in the Faraway Tree
As a spin-off from Tom’s Publog articles (one and two here) I thought it was worthwhile savouring some of the items you could not actually get. Enid Blyt[…]

I don?t know if it?s just me, but these pictures look like anything you?d see Madonna or Britney Spears do on stage. I mean, this is something you can see at Lincoln Center for an NEA grant.
Rush Limbaugh
While aside from location difficulties […]

Silly Picassos and the Nature of the Market
What could you have bought if you wanted to spend a $104,168,000
at the auctions this season:
*A loose, easy and chaotic, very early ink drawing by Phillip Guston, from a period that is vastly under valued […]

Why Superman is rubbish. Or to be more precise, a Time article on why Superman is rubbish at the moment. If one bypasses obvious small reasons like Chuck Austen writing one of them, the article misses out the real reason. Superman is, with one except[…]

Mendel’s Dwarf: Part One Of Two
Simon Mawer’s novel Mendel’s Dwarf is that potentially most annoying of things. A parallel narrative, where both generally unrelated storylines unfold, taking space, time and momentum from the other. […]

I wz sat next to the designer (a very old friend) and behind the adaptor-translator, who i had just that evening met and liked, so my response to the African-politics reading of Mother Courage at the Hackney Empire is far more tied into friendships t[…]

The art of the film poster has taken a nosedive in the last twenty years, well thought out collages, montages and paintings have given way to often messily generic screen grabs, cheap poster printing and photoshopped monstrosities. Every now and then[…]

I’ll Take You There by Joyce Carol Oates
This is, according to the listing in the front of this book, Oates’s 86th book in less than 40 years – and since it’s from way back in 2002, she’s probably passed 90 by now. There[…]

The Apple Stretching (WWIISINY, part the second)
Here you are then: more of the same (only different).
5. Jim Lambie: Mental Oyster (Anton Kern )
Good old Jimbo Lambie, he’s doing here what he does best, taping up the floor so it’s all ey[…]