‘Poetry is not something you have to retire from…’
Book Review: Charles Chaplin – My Autobiography
‘I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying...’
Book Review: De Niro – A Biography
‘The archetypal empty bottle which only becomes visible when it’s filled by a role…’
Book Review: Ayoade on Top
‘Time and romance are inextricably linked because as soon as anything starts, it starts to end…’
Book Review: Crime
Book Review: The Call of the Wild
‘There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise…’
Book Review: The Goldfinch
Book Review: At Home – A Short History of Private Life
‘It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before…’
Book Review: The Five
‘The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers...’
Book Review: Comfort Me with Apples
‘Comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love…’
