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Are breakdancing, climbing and skateboarding competitive sports? Does it matter?
This most knowing of writers could have written a fascinating study of late-life creation — a shame then, that it reads like disjointed musings
Q&A with the writer on friends vs mentors, going from Oxford to the dole and being a malcontent
A droll guide to the movie that introduced a generation of schoolboys to the war film
‘Was it mean of us doing as we did? Is having a big wedding an extravagant version of getting your round in at the pub?’
As the new Wellcome show “Teeth” opens, the writer reflects on our dental obsession
‘Living by the sea is wonderful - until its glittering blue promise is broken by grey, windswept reality’
The author employs artifice to capture reality in his comic, sorrowful travel essays
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