October 19, 2019

Kamala Shamsie vs the Israeli Government’s Apologists

The award-winning novelist Kamala Shamsie is not prone to self-righteousness. I’ve met her several times over the years. She is still, thoughtful, measured and wise, manifestly […]
September 30, 2013

How Art Treats Princess Diana

The new film Diana  is, at times, bathetic, intermittently moving, certainly torrid, vivid and subversive. It is based on the book Last Love by Kate Snell, […]
April 5, 2013

A Hundred Years of Indian Cinema

  The Indian film industry is the biggest and loudest on the planet. Eight hundred films are produced every year for domestic audiences of a billion […]