May 17, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL This weekend, I’m a FLFer. It’s pronounced like that word, but it’s not nearly so hard on the knees. The Franschhoek Literary Festival is, as I write, half-way done, and it’s been its usual melange of the entertaining, intellectual, naïve,...
Apr 23, 2014 | ARTiculate
By TAMSYN LUNT Today marks the annual celebration of World Book Day! We can all band together and bask in the glory of the classics. Of crime novels and fantasies. We can think fondly of the distinct smell of fresh chapters or of yellow-stained pages handled...
Mar 31, 2014 | ARTiculate
By CHRISTOPHER LEACH On March 8th, contact was lost with Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200ER en route from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. The absence of facts as to the fate of the flight at first left a vacuum swiftly filled by speculation, guesswork...
Mar 16, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL Worrying about finance is for accountants. Think about how many situations you’ve observed, onscreen or elsewhere, where an actor asks a director: “What is my motivation for this role?” How many times has that director said: “What you need to...
Feb 16, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL At the time of writing, the top four teams in the English Premier League – Arsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool – have goal differences of, respectively, 24, 38, 23 and 25.That is to say, each of those squads have scored that many...
