Category: General
Clinton’s critics say college tuition proposal won’t reach poorest families
As students head off to campus and parents start writing hefty checks, Clinton’s plan is fielding attacks not just from disappointed Sanders supporters but also the right and even the center. Free college for 80% of American households? Who couldnt fall in love with a proposal like that? Plenty of us, it seems. Either Hillary […]
Adam Lallanas last-gasp goal gives England victory over 10-man Slovakia
Sam Allardyce made a winning start as England manager after Adam Lallanas injury-time goal decided the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Slovakia The first goal of Sam Allardyces reign came so late the final attack, five minutes into stoppage time, amid shrieking, plaintive whistles there was only time for Slovakia to take the kick-off before […]
Una review Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn child abuse drama is stagey disappointment
A two-hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise. The challenge with transforming a stage production into a movie is the need to provide enough of a justification as to why the move was necessary. The differences between the […]
Whodunnit and whowroteit: the strange case of The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor
The real mystery of this 1930s cult thriller is not its murder, but the identity of its writer. So, asks Jonathan Coe, who was Cameron McCabe and what were the facts behind his fiction? This extraordinary work of postmodern fakery from the golden age of detective fiction was last reprinted 30 years ago, and in […]
Dennis Cooper’s blog re-launched after Google censorship criticisms
Artist and author writes that tech firm will provide all Gmail correspondence and gif novel he was working on, and post data from site to new domain post-by-post. Artist and author Dennis Cooper re-launched his popular blog on Monday after months of legal disputes with Google, who many accused of censorship. The artist posted a […]