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: A restaurant critic turns the tables
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John Walsh: A film fails if the viewer turns away
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
I don't know when a mainstream film sparked off so much argument as The Killer Inside Me, the noir thriller by Michael Winterbottom. I've had so many heated conversations about it, my head is spinning.
John Walsh: So now we know what rhymes with 'hymen'
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Notebook: The Hay Festival still surprises me after 22 years
John Walsh: Stop agreeing and start fighting
Saturday, 29 May 2010
How do the Tories and Lib Dems get through every day without winding each other up?
John Walsh: The Bible Society's debt to Arthur C Clarke?
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Notebook: Well, who'd have thought it? The Bible Society is in the news and they're still bringing the good news about Jesus to the furthest-flung bits of the world.
John Walsh: Yes, Tom Stoppard, it was me laughing
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
How do you make torture entertaining? How do you stage terror, infanticide, brutalisation and extraordinary rendition in a way that leaves your audience uplifted and in the mood for a drinks party?
John Walsh: Tahiti and the UK are not really so far apart
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
You have to admit it: Tahiti in early May just isn't Britain. For one thing, it's always 82 degrees fahrenheit there, morning and night.
John Walsh: Reminding the faithful of the resurrection of Christ isn't for wimps
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: I wonder what a quilting bee inside a maximum security wing is like
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Tales of the City
John Walsh: College reunions give us a chance to monitor each other's, ahem, progress
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Tales of the City
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