Mark Lawson
FICTION was such an established business by the 60s that even the most original authors could only continue familiar...
Published 22 Sep, 2015 06:45am
The Black-Eyed Blonde represents a literary brand-name wrapped in a pseudonym inside a Man Booker prize winner.
Published 19 Mar, 2014 07:19am
IN an early scene of the new drama Utopia on Channel 4, an academic rejects a student’s proposal for a PhD on conspiracy theories: “I mean, conspiracies aren’t very now, are they?” The line is winking inwardly because
Published 20 Jan, 2013 10:01pm
LONDON The revelation that Britain`s Channel 4 television has made a drama-documentary imagining the kidnapping of...
Published 12 Oct, 2010 12:00am
IT has been a good week for monarchists compiling scrapbooks of the lives of the younger Royals Prince William, in a...
Published 27 Sep, 2009 12:00am
A QUIZ question what is the link between ex-President Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov and the British...
Published 20 Sep, 2009 12:00am
CULTURAL commentators searching online bookstores last week for English-language translations of books by Jean-Marie...
Published 13 Oct, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Most of us, it seems, were born too late; we’ve missed the best of Britain. The head of the UK’s teaching...
Published 03 Aug, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: Most of us, it seems, were born too late; we’ve missed the best of Britain. The head of the UK’s teaching...
Published 03 Aug, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: During high security alerts in the UK, we’re familiar with the “show of strength”, in which tanks patrol the...
Published 15 Jun, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: The classic plot in children’s literature pits an individual with a mission against an unrelenting ...
Published 08 Jun, 2008 12:00am
IN April, the writer Gordon Burn will publish a book called Born Yesterday The News as a Novel, which, according to...
Published 09 Mar, 2008 12:00am
LONDON: The financial power of the creative industries in the UK — comparable, we’re told, to the financial-services...
Published 01 Jul, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: On the phone-in programmes on Friday morning, the Go Harry vote was running far ahead of the No Harry...
Published 29 Apr, 2007 12:00am
LONDON: On the night before the Stevens report asserted that Princess Diana was killed by accident rather than...
Published 16 Dec, 2006 12:00am
LONDON: In discussions over what broadcasting’s ultimate depravity would be, the consensus has usually settled ...
Published 04 Feb, 2006 12:00am
LONDON: The default response of an opposition party is to call for a public inquiry, but we’ve finally reached a...
Published 17 Dec, 2005 12:00am
LONDON: The 1980s movie The Ploughman’s Lunch took its title from an early example of what we have now come to know...
Published 08 Dec, 2003 12:00am
LONDON: Pictures may be worth a thousand words but the weakness of photography is that the meaning of an image ...
Published 19 May, 2002 12:00am
LONDON: Pictures may be worth a thousand words but the weakness of photography is that the meaning of an image ...
Published 19 May, 2002 12:00am
