Kieran Setiya announces the results of his competition to find the best exquisitely mean review. The criteria were:
1. The review must have a worthy target. Thus, I was forced to ignore, among other things, A. O. Scott’s review of Gigli.
2. The review may be grossly unfair, but…
3. It has to give good arguments, or […]
Continuing my tradition of being several years behind (I find it easier as time goes by), someone gave me a copy of Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons to read on a flight. I knew about the Da Vinci Code and all that but hadn’t read anything by him. The result was very nearly as painful […]
I picked up Alan Bennett’s new collection, Untold Stories over the weekend. It looks as though it is at least as good as Writing Home. The prose is—well, here’s an example from the diary entries:
I’m sent a complimentary (sic) copy of Waterstone’s Literary Diary which records the birthdays of various contemporary figures in the world […]
For some reason someone thought this clip from Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes was something Henry and I should read. I can’t imagine why.
And although we didn’t want to … we traipsed over behind him. Where we had to do the Irish person meets other Irish person abroad thing. Which involved first of all pretending […]
David Bernstein has been taking a few pot-shots at Oliver Wendell Holmes, suggesting that his reputation has declined. (This is part of David’s role as a footsoldier in the battle to rehabilitate Lochner vs New York as one of the Great Supreme Court Decisions.) I have no view one way or the other about Holmes, […]
The New York Times’ website just got a new design, and at first glance passes the test of being better-designed than my homepage. (It had been failing this test for the past five years or so.) As I write this, the new look is set off by a photograph of Bill Frist apparently demonstrating the […]
© Kieran Healy’s Weblog. Powered by WordPress using a modified DePo Clean Theme.