BOOK
I’m just coming to the end of The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser – Jerome Loving’s critical biography of my favourite writer. Loving weaves together three narratives – Dreiser’s personal life; his literary development; and the history of early-Twentieth Century America – to create the definitive account of the genius behind Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy. As the best literary biographies always do, it’s got me once again reaching for its subject’s work.
CINEMA
There’s a lot of interesting Turkish cinema around at the moment; much of it dealing with that country’s place in the world, and the tug between East and West. A case in point: Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven, which bounces freely between Turkey and Germany to tell a tale of crossed-wires, chance meetings and cultural tensions.
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