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May 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 64 – Patrick Gower
Welcome to episode 64 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys and our brand new sponsor, Le Petite Chocolat – organic and fairtrade craft chocolate from Hastings. Delicious. Check them out…Archive
April 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Best of Enemies: DVD
Best of Enemies – Buckley vs. Vidal. Directors: Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon Magnolia Pictures/Madman A nice idea, this documentary, but it doesn’t quite work. First of all, we probably got what we needed from the recent United States of Amnesia documentary about Gore Vidal. And though this aims to look, specifically, at the ten […]Archive
August 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mohsin Hamid: Discontent and Its Civilizations – Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London Mohsin Hamid Riverhead Books Mohsin Hamid has three novels to his name – most significant is his The Reluctant Fundamentalist. That same calm, measured voice marks his journalism as distinct in this collection of essays where the personal becomes the geopolitical, where defence of […]Archive
March 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman