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  It was sad synchronicity that Jonathan Demme should die just after Bruce Langhorne, whose obituary I wrote for the Guardian last week ...

My obituary of Robert Pirsig, author of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance , is up at the Guardian website; you can link to it here ....

I appeared on BBC Radio 4's Last Word today, talking to host Matthew Bannister about the comedian Don Rickles, whose obit I wrote for th...

My obituary of Bruce Langhorne, the session guitarist & percusionist who inspired 'Mr Tambourine Man' is online at the Guardian ...

Listening on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to Theresa May's rationalizations for calling a snap election, it was obvious that they w...

I was Samira Ahmed's guest on Front Row last night to talk about Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply , a biopic of sorts of Howard...

Devon Knox is an immensely promising young gymnast, despite having lost two toes in an accident with a lawn mower when she was just three. ...

NOTE: I found this essay in my files the other day. I wrote it in 2003, and by rights it should have been in my late lamented Crime Time col...

A couple of hundred pages into A Game Of Ghosts Charlie Parker feels, “not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost stor...

Neruda , which played in the directors' competition at Cannes and the official competition at the London Film Festival, and is now on re...

My obituary of Don Rickles is up at the Guardian online, you can link to it here . It should be in the paper paper soon. It is pretty much a...

The Maine winter is closing in on Mary Portman, played by Naomi Watts. She's a child psychologist trapped in her house during a Maine...