Werner Herzog: The Director is Present (2011)
Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an…
Alan Hollinghurst: The Stranger's Child (2011)
It is seven years since Alan Hollinghurst won the 2004 Booker prize for The Line of Beauty, his Jamesian…
An Interview with Robert Coover (2011)
I am floating in a world made entirely of text. Lines of white courier type stretch away to the…
Ai Weiwei: Where we are, he is too. Where he is, we are with him (2011)
As I write, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been in detention for 51 days and 6 hours. I…
Arthur's Ten Universal Laws of Chewies (2011)
A found chewy is better than an offered chewy A new chewy is better than an old chewy A…
The Pale King: David Foster Wallace (2011)
One measure of a great fiction writer is the ability – possessed by very few – to bend reality, to seem…
Ai Weiwei, missing 44 days. A statement of ethical principles for gallerists, collectors and other artworld folk
Numbness When it comes to being numb, certain people take first prize – those who sacrifice the people closest to…
The death of Osama Bin Laden: Celebrations at Ground Zero (2011)
Some time around 10.30pm I was sitting over dinner at a friend's place on the Upper West Side.…
