John Baker’s Blog

For St Patrick’s Day MA Peel mused:
I met a psychiatrist once who believed that the national Irish affinity for drinking was a product of centuries of oppression/emasculation by the British.
The post goes on to review the film Kings from Tom Collins, and the play The Seafarer, by Conor McPherson
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When The Cat Kin didn’t sell enough [...]

Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian Online discusses George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books, and along the way turns up this extraordinary confession:
It really is a brilliant article: angry, personal, affecting, terrifically written. It deserves to be anthologised. I actually dug it out today from a pile of old magazines. It is in the Summer 1991 [...]