IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

My obituary of the pianist Earl Wild is in today's Independent, you can link to it here ...

Like The Vampire Of Ropraz , Jacques Chessex's previous novel (see my review here ) published in English translation by Bitter Lemon Pre...

Don't forget, for those of you in the UK of GB + NI, or who can see BBC 1, I'll be commenting on the Super Bowl tonight, live, at 22...

My obituary of Howard Zinn is in today's Independent; you can link to it here . I was fascinated by his experiences as a B-17 bombadier;...

There was a sale of Impressionist Art at Sothebys today. Yesterday my friend Michael Goldfarb and I skipped our usual weekly dim sum or pho ...

The world-weariness displayed by Stephen Villani, head of homicide in Melbourne's police, is a more direct, Australian version of the ki...

My obituary of the actor Pernell Roberts appears in today's Independent, you can link to it online here. They've used a great phot...

I'll be punditising about JD Salinger tonight on the BBC World Service programme The Strand, at 2232 GMT, immediately after the news. St...

By a curious sort of syncopated synchronicity, since I had just read and written about Richard Williams' The Blue Moment , BBC4's Ar...

My obituary of Erich Segal is in today's Independent, you can link to it here . It ran pretty much as I wrote it, except for a small dig...

It was 35 years ago that Joe Gores published Hammett , a brilliant novel in which Dashiell Hammett turned detective, though turn isn't q...

My obituary of the great detective novelist Robert B Parker is in today's Guardian; you can link to it here . I read Parker from his ve...