We are subjected to that which does not exist Simone Weil When an old friend who has drunk deep from the puddle of the New Atheism complained on social media that religious people believe things that are “in…
" I’ve tried to read Karl Ove Knausgaard. But it is impossible… My Struggle lacks air. Literature needs a little air. " Peter Handke " In his fiction [David Grossman] has always been a serious writer, a deale…
What draws me back to Thomas Bernhard's novels is the wish to appreciate again how each is set in motion. The Loser begins like this. Even Glenn Gould, our friend and the most important piano virtuoso of the century, only …
From the front page of Brighton & Hove Council's free newspaper. That word, invariably connected to public art: accessible. What does it mean? The Festival is held once a year across May, heralded on the first Satu…
The BBC marked Holocaust Day 2015 by showing the nine hours of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah over consecutive Sunday evenings. I had seen the film almost thirty years before when Channel 4 showed it in full with, as a mark of resp…