‘We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts…’
Book Review: Danse Macabre
Book Review: The Body – A Guide for Occupants
‘There are thousands of things that can kill us…’
Book Review: Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes
‘A Guided Tour across a Decade of American Independent Cinema..’
Book Review: A Little Book of Language
‘We’ll never get them to notice us if we say ordinary things in an ordinary way…’
Book Review: Road to Wigan Pier
‘We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive…’
Book Review: Mother Tongue – The Story of the English Language
‘The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively…’
Book Review: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
‘If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it…’
Book Review: Notes from a Small Island
‘Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realised what it was that I loved about Britain – which is to say, all of it…’
