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Posted on September 17, 2015

A Question of Silence: review of “Berberian Sound Studio” and “The Numbers Station”, Nthposition, early 2014

The original is here . Recently I watched Computer Chess which is similar to Berberian Sound Studio in many ways – an unusual setting and milieu usually ignored by filmmakers, and a main character’s…

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Posted on September 9, 2015

The Oxford Murders Review, Nthposition, 2005

This review is one which has come to occupy a certain place in my mental landscape of being a writer. A review reflects many things, and one is the circumstances of…

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Posted on September 8, 2015

Annual Report, Nthposition, July 2010

Here I tried to capture something of the spirit of those months and years which have yet to be satisfactorily named. At the time, “credit crunch” was all the rage,…

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Posted on September 7, 2015September 7, 2015

The Statistician’s Parable. Nthposition, May 09

This was written on a phone, a Nokia of some kind. There are two companion parables. Changing the sex of the character from sentence to sentence seemed profound at the…

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Posted on September 7, 2015

Silence – A Fragment. Nthposition, March 2013

For some years now, I have been contemplating a philosophy of silence. Is that my most pretentious sentence yet? Possibly. Silence is fascinating. When we are most at ease with…

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Posted on September 7, 2015

Hiatus and Hackathon

I haven’t posted in a few days, because I was in Glasgow – at a Hackathon . You can read my initial reflections at that link.

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Posted on September 2, 2015

Exhibition review: “A German Dream: Masterpieces of Romanticism from the Nationalgalerie Berlin ” – Spectator, December 2004

My one appearance in the Spectator, and my one published piece of visual art criticism. A lot of “slightly” here, and “rather.” I don’t read the Spectator much anymore; its prose style…

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Posted on August 31, 2015August 31, 2015

Review of The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed and the Cursed History of One of the World’s Most Coveted Gems. Susan Ronald. TLS May 5 2005

This is a pretty good example of the capsule reviews I started out contributing to the TLS. Capsule reviews impose a certain discipline on the reviewer – longer word counts…

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