Book of the dayAutobiography and memoirReviewWith her naughty stories and cutting remarks, the comic actor spares no blushes – but her account is poignant too
I’m quite sure you picked up this book hoping I’d make you laugh,” Miriam Margolyes writes in her memoir, This Much Is True. She more than delivered. When I was reading it this book on a train, a stranger asked if I was OK because I was crying with laughter at Margolyes’s description of her interview to study English literature at Oxford (“‘Do you like Milton? Read More...
Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAng Lee’s audacious smash hit introduced a broad English-speaking world to a new kind of thrill and one that carried with it an unusual substance
When Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was released 20 years ago, it was the culmination of a cultural exchange between east and west, and a glimpse into a future where America and China would only become more densely intertwined. That the film was wildly successful in one country and flopped in the other may speak to some fundamental disconnect between them, as if director Ang Lee failed at the bridge-building that could have made it appeal to everyone at once. Read More...
The running blogRunningDo you bonk when you run?It’s the moment every long-distance runner and endurance athlete dreads: legs feel heavy, the body drained and the mind spent. How do you beat the bonk?
If you run long distances regularly, chances are you’ll at some point have “bonked”, or hit the wall. Bonking describes the point at which the body’s glycogen stores are depleted and the body starts to fatigue and burn fat, making each step towards the finish line a vicious battle of mind over body. Read More...