IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

My obituary of Elijah Cummings, recent foil (and thus, inevitably, target) of Donald Trump as head of the House Oversight Committee, was onl...

The English Spy is the first novel by Daniel Silva I have read, but it is instructive in revealing some of the secrets of his immense ...

I've written a piece for Arc Digital suggesting an easy way to make the current conundrum over Brexit something more bearable, entertain...

My obit of Joseph C Wilson, the former US Ambassador who went to Niger to investigate whether Iraq was trying to buy uranium, and discovered...

There is an interesting moment in Big Game when author Mark Leibovich mentions he had been reading 'an old book about the NFL, The ...

The NFL season is rapidly approaching, and I've done a couple of deep previews of it. The first. which I wrote at the beginning of Augus...

Although I'd recorded the interview with Matthew Bannister a month ago, my appreciation of Jim Bouton has just been broadcast on BBC Rad...

Nick Buoniconti was unique in being a player from the era before free agency who is remembered a being crucial and beloved by fans of two...

Many of the greatest writers of espionage fiction have been fascinated by the idea of betrayal, and the ways in which its being stock in ...

Looking yet again at Woodstock for its 50 th anniversary, I was struck by the full lineup of musicians who played – those who missed the c...

NOTE: This is the 1,200th post to this blog since I first posted a review of George Pelecanos' The Turnaround in July 2008. I like th...

I've done a long essay on the Summer of 69 and the Age of Aquarius, the Moon, Manson and Music, which has just gone up at Medium. You ca...