Janet Malcolm’s “Still Pictures”
“Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory”, by Janet Malcolm is a look back at her life as seen through the camera lens.
Maurice Saatchi arrives in Heaven
Maurice Saatchi has written a remarkable book “Do Not Resuscitate”, the opening scene of which finds him jostling with a desperate crowd at the gates of heaven.
American Dirt – Cultural Appropriation or Just a Great Story?
The best-seller “American Dirt” by Jeannine Cummins provoked a storm of controversy, with claims it was a blatant case of cultural appropriation. Are such claims valid, or is it a case of political correctness gone mad?
French Desserts
French desserts are delicious to taste and beautiful to look at because they’re created with that special passion the French bring to their cuisine.
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
“The Latecomer” fulfils all the things we’ve come to expect from Jean Hanff Korelitz and more – great plot, amazing characters and a smorgasbord of themes.
The Ways We Talk About Cancer
Elaine Schattner’s forthcoming book “From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer” probes the evolution in attitudes towards cancer that have shaped our responses to the disease since the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Why Do Writers Write?
Why do writers write? Both Joan Didion and George Orwell have answered this question as have many famous authors but are their reasons the full story?
Food Writing
Where did food writing come from, is it a valid genre and why is it consistently underrated.
How a Blog Begins
Why, when there is a surfeit of blogs about books and about food, would I want to start a new one? Learn how it’s saving a failed novelist from feeling like a failed human being.
You Aren’t What You Eat
Stephen Poole’s book “You Aren’t What You Eat: Fed Up With Gastroculture” takes a very sharp knife to the foodie culture and all those who relish it.
