Lawless London
There’s anarchy going on round London town Smashed windows, robbed corner shops and morale is down. The community is crushed, crumbling against the flames And all they can say is it’s because youths have no […]
Literature
Capturing 9/11 in literature: is it too soon?
Writers, like the rest of us, realised the consequential enormity of that day. Indeed, soon after 9/11, Martin Amis noted, “all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.” Some writers were […]
The Writing Life by Jerry Levy
My shrink thinks I should give up writing. “It’s too isolating.” he tells me. “Be with people,” Is he kidding? Has he scanned the newspapers lately? Does he know about the hole in the ozone, […]
Hirschhorn: ‘It’s Burning Everywhere’ – 2009, a look back
In a certain centre of arts, on a certain street near a certain famous Dundonan takeaway I wandered from the realm of chips and cheese in to the latest art exhibition of that particular building […]