John Walsh
Prolific writer and commentator John Walsh contributes two weekly columns to the paper, Tales of the City and BTW, as well as writing features, interviews and restaurant reviews. He has been editor of The Independent Magazine, literary editor of the Sunday Times and features editor of the London Evening Standard. His latest novel, Sunday at the Cross Bones, was published in 2007.
John Walsh: ‘Saint Therese is visiting Wormwood Scrubs prison on her tour of England’
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John Walsh: 'How much for Janis's letters? Holy cow. Is rock 'n' roll the new literature?'
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
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John Walsh: ‘Sarkozy airily quotes Celine and carries works by Zola to power lunches’
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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John Walsh: Passion, drama, ecstasy – who'd have thought cricket can be such fun?
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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John Walsh: 'Futurists, Vorticists, Imagists: where are the manifesto writers today?'
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Tales of the City
John Walsh: We all got a kick out of the Kung Fu master
Friday, 5 June 2009
David Carradine's finest hours were probably those spent inhabiting the character of Kwai Chang Caine in the early-1970s TV series, Kung Fu. In concept, Kung Fu was a masterly conflation of two wildly different genres: the old-style Western and the new martial arts movies, starring Bruce Lee. My teen generation, raised on both late-Sixties hippie mysticism and the suave violence of the James Bond/ Man from UNCLE franchises, admired this peculiar hybrid of saintliness and savagery, toughness and transcendentalism.
John Walsh: 'When everyone else is in Bermuda shirts and Rockport deck shoes, I prefer a feast of gore and grossness'
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Tales of the City
John Walsh: 'When did audiences start needing special effects to get through a play?'
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Tales of the city
John Walsh: ‘Perhaps it’s time a major newspaper investigated cleaners’ expenses’
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Gordon Brown’s sister-in-law, Clare Brown, has gone into print to explain about l’affaire Madame Mopp. You may recall that, among the epoch-making revelations about MPs’ domestic expenses, the PM was revealed to have paid his brother Andrew several thousand quid for the shared use of a cleaner. Ms Brown explained how she extended her own cleaner’s workload so that her industrious in-law shouldn’t be overwhelmed by work. In doing so, she paints an unlovely picture of Gordon’s domestic routine (“Gordon was already the sort of guy who might have to change shirts twice a day, and who would have streams of people trudging through his flat, usually leaving dirty mugs and takeaway cartons in their wake”) in which the Prime Minister resembles a sweaty drug dealer.
John Walsh: ‘When did relationships in movies become less important than lifestyle?’
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Tales of the City
John Walsh: 'She told him to get lost, he asked her to imagine them making love...'
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
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