Book review: Alice Munro’s Dear Life
In the light of today’s Nobel Literature Prize award we reproduce Laurence Inman’s review of the winner’s Dear Life.
The joy of trees
This week Laurence Inman is in an arboreal mood.
Memo to all sections in Department of Health
Laurence Inman has seen a secret memo and, in true Wikileaks fashion, reveals its contents just prior to his arrest.
God’s own country?
Black US teenager Trayvon Martin’s shooting, and subsequent acquittal of his killer, elicits this from Laurence Inman.
What’s in a name?
Larry Inman ponders this whilst contemplating an outbreak of violence.
In praise of Springsteen
Laurence Inman rather warms to New Jersey’s finest export.
Cybercrime to Springsteen via Sexsmith
Laurence Inman has a lesson in cyberspace and is in a merrier mood than of late.
Fry’s the limit
Laurence Inman on having it all yet having nothing and has some words of advice for Stephen Fry.
Streetwise
Laurence Inman has been studying the decline of the high street.
Climb every mountain
Laurence Inman goes exploring heroism and wonders just who we should be celebrating.
The future’s not looking so good
Some people are just so off-message. Laurence Inman is one of those people.
God and his botherers
Laurence Inman isn’t impressed by the missionary’s position
Running scarred
Laurence Inman is a lot fitter than he looks. Certainly fit enough to assault his telly – again!
It doesn’t get tougher than this
But Laurence Inman’s ire drives him to new levels of toughness.
That nice Mr Gove
Laurence Inman is in love, but it’s a very weird kind of thing.
A suitable case for treatment
Laurence Inman is in a pensive mood, dogged by regrets.
Saying goodbye to the Grocer’s Daughter
Laurence Inman’s acerbic commentary on the late Baroness Thatcher
Of doubtful benefit
Laurence Inman is not in a hopeful mood, despite receiving good news
From William Shakespeare to Orson Welles
Laurence Inman casts a critical eye on the art of Shakespeare.
Iraq, Blair, Q, recording and catch up, horse racing, Grand prix, time travel and more
Laurence Inman likes a good moan from time to time. He’s on form here.
Bankers, money and betting
Laurence Inman sees certain links ‘twixt the three.
A case of fewer is more
Laurence Inman has a radical plan to make roads safer – but you won’t like it.
Birmingham’s past: Chamberlain, Chamberlain and Martin
Laurence Inman praises the work ethic, eschews the money ethic and comments on Birmingham’s architectural heritage.
Why do we live like this?
Laurence Inman continues his campaign against the hypocrisy surrounding the nation’s love of vehicular transport.
Driven to despair
On the day when the Office for National Statistics revealed that in the 2011 Census, driving was the most common form of commuting to work Laurence Inman so wishes it could all be different
The devil is in the detail
Laurence Inman continues his exclusive interviews with the great, the good and the just plain bad.
Laurence Inman’s scoop of the year
Doomed, we are. All doomed. Read on to find out why.
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Laurence Inman on biographers, biographies and a number 17 bus.
Tres mis over Les Miz
Laurence Inman says: “Don’t get me started on Les Misérables.”
Nostalgia: It’s not what it used to be
Last year Laurence Inman found himself treading in the footsteps of legends.