Stories By Garan Holcombe
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Biography
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
October 29, 2021Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
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Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
October 28, 2021Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
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Movies
Spanish Cinema: Almodóvar and Amenábar
October 26, 2021With camp, hedonistic and sexually vulgar films, notable for their strong, flamboyant women and their comic,...
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Classics
The Collector by John Fowles
October 20, 2021Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
May 19, 2020The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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Medicine
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
May 19, 2020He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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Australia
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
May 10, 2020His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Art
30,000 Years of Art
May 10, 2020‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
May 7, 2020Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
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Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
May 4, 2020There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
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