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Jerusalem—a triumph. But here's what it missed
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / March 23, 2010
Jez Butterworth’s play, Jerusalem, has been universally praised by critics, and it recently won  the best actor Olivier award for its lead, Mark Rylance. And justifiably so: it is a stunning and...
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John Hughes: the well-heeled whimsy of the 1980s
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / August 9, 2009
I read with sadness of the death of the Hollywood producer, writer and director John Hughes on August 6th. I then spent the weekend indulging my nostalgic streak by viewing his three most important...
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We are at war
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / July 17, 2009
On the day of our greatest loss of life in Afghanistan, I was talking to a very senior British Army officer about improvised explosive devices and I asked the question: "In order to reduce the...
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Natasha Richardson
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / March 19, 2009
To even the balance after the earlier post on this blog comparing Natasha Richardson with Jade Goody, I thought I would write a very brief actor's appreciation of a single, excellent piece of...
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Four legs good, two legs bad
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / February 28, 2009
Mark Rowlands's book on what it meant to have a wolf as his constant companion is both a striking and a frustratingly limited work of philosophy
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Christian Bale: There's Method to his madness...
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / February 4, 2009
Sitting in rainy Seville, researching for a book on bullfighting (see my blog here), I have been out of the loop on the world of theatre and film until the Prospect office sent me a hilarious...
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FTSE: A Thousand Points Further To Fall
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / January 7, 2009
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Jean Charles de Menezes: From A Logical Point of View
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / December 12, 2008
What happens when it goes wrong? Despite the vast amount of coverage of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, it is remarkable how little of it directs the finger of blame, moral, legal or...
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A noble death
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / September 28, 2008
Bullfighting is seen by many as cruel. But it is not merely a gaudy circus spectacle; at its best it is an art form. Can aesthetics justify the suffering of the animal?
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A beautiful find: Stefan Zweig's memoir
Alexander Fiske-Harrison / January 8, 2008
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