Jemaine Clement rhapsodizes about his Masterton childhood in the pages of Maxim: “My family were working-class,” he says. “My mom worked in a cheese factory, my dad worked in a…
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Terence Rafferty on Godard's "radiant, ambiguous, serenely perverse" classic and it's new revival in New York: The greatness of “Contempt” is that Mr. Godard is not, finally, nostalgic for the…
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Satirist George Saunders speaking at the Brooklyn Academy of Music back in January: He aims to “take his reader by the shirt and fling him; you send him 15 feet…
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A comment from a Guardian over-by-over reader on Steve Harmison's surprisingly candid interview with Nasser Hussain during the First Test: "Is Harmison going to try his nuts off and hold…
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A little late, but still recommended, Jane Campion remembers Janet Frame and making An Angel at My Table, in The Guardian: Each room and even parts of rooms were dedicated…
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But I ask the questions again - why remove the captaincy from the world’s best captain? Why truncate the career, in any way, of the highest run scorer in our…
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