Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. Not once. Not for Eyes Wide Shut. Not for Knight and Day. Not even for Mission: Impossible 2. He has come tantalisingly close a few times. Like when he played opposite Oscar-scooping Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. And when his first ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, won an Academy Award… Continue reading Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Writing tagged: ‘reviews’
Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.
Book review: ‘Human Evolution’ by Bernard Wood
A very short introduction.
Book review: ‘The Jeeves Omnibus, vol. 1’ by P.G. Wodehouse
What-ho!
Book review: ‘The Tree House’ by Kathleen Jamie
Poetry grounded squarely in the real world.
Book review: ‘A Field Guide to Getting Lost’ by Rebecca Solnit
Getting lost as a way to finding yourself.
Book review: ‘The Faraway Nearby’ by Rebecca Solnit
A curiously compelling mix of memoir and anti-memoir.
Book review: ‘Edgelands’ by Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts
Journeys into England's true wilderness.
Book review: ‘After Nature’ by W.G. Sebald
Three long-form poems, best read as prose.
Book review: ‘The Ongoing Moment’ by Geoff Dyer
A book about photography.