My 300th blog, and by way of celebration here are links to a year's worth of my reviews and commentaries in the Times Literary Supplement. You may think this is a cop-out, and in certain moods I would agree. But this is also a pretext to include my favourite TLS cover (below) featuring Powell and Pressburger's sublime masterpiece A Matter of Life and Death. I'll write about this film some time.
So, in order of publication:
Noriko Smiling - a fine book about Ozu's cinematic masterpiece by Adam Mars-Jones.
The Projection of Britain - an absorbing history of the wonderful GPO Film Unit.
More Worthy than Lark - how the death of T. S. Eliot was reported by the BBC.
Music Wars by Patrick Bade - a fascinating account of musical culture during the Second World War.
A Point of View by Clive James - a collection of essays and postscripts from his Radio 4 series.
The Literary North - wide-ranging academic essays on northern writers.
Lucky in Love Journals - 1946-1995 by Stephen Spender.
I'm a Believer - a short note in defence of Neil Diamond.
London E1 by Robert Poole - the only novel by this forgotten working-class writer.
In every dream home . . . Maynard L Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream
Blokelore and Blokesongs - Robert Conquest's sprightly collection of poetry.
Gob impressive A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride. The first review of a book that has now become famous, by an author hailed by Anne Enright of The Guardian as 'a genius'.
Class Difference The Likes of Us - Stories of Five Decades - short stories by Stan Barstow.
Twitter and Brimstone Four novels by Gerald Kersh: Night and the City, The Angel and the Cuckoo, Nightshade and Damnations and Fowlers End.
Why Photography Matters by Jerry Thompson - a little gem of a book.
There are others, I'm afraid, and more to come But this will have to do for now. Tomorrow's blog may be a world first . . .
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