Tag Archives: thrillers
Column: Film and TV
The Spanish Film Festival: a celluloid armada
In 2010, I wrote an article about the Palestinian Film Festival. That festival showcased the works of a fragile film industry that receives no government funding – a national cinema without a nation state – from mainly diasporic Palestinian directors. Likewise, the festival itself had no major … Read more
Interviews
I mourn the death of story: Andrew Nicoll on The Love and Death of Caterina
Andrew Nicoll, author of The Good Mayor, has just released his second novel, The Love and Death of Caterina. Despite being kidnapped by S.A. Jones at a writers’ festival a few years back, he agreed to talk to her about his new book. The love and death … Read more
Podcast
Podcast: Melanie Joosten’s Berlin Syndrome
Picture this: a young Australian woman is waiting at the traffic lights in East Berlin when a tall man with curly hair asks her if she likes strawberries. She says yes, a seemingly small decision that leads to bigger ones, decisions so big that her life changes … Read more
