Observer Music Monthly, 12 November 2006
Carl Wilkinson salutes the return of the hip hop kingpin whose friendship with Chris Martin hasn’t dulled his spittin’ skills
Hov is back! ‘Just when you thought the world would fall apart/Take off the blazer, loosen up the tie, step inside the booth, Superman is alive!’ he raps on the [...]

The Observer, 6 November 2005
VS Pritchett: A Working Life
by Jeremy Treglown
Pimlico £12.99, pp 308
VS Pritchett (or VSP) was his generation’s leading man of letters, a critic as adept and humorous as Virginia Woolf. His output was prodigious: reviews, essays, novels, biographies and, most importantly, short stories. The man was a writing machine and Jeremy Treglown’s [...]

Isaac Julien: True North & Fantôme Afrique
Victoria Miro Gallery, London N1, until 12 Nov
Isaac Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for work which explored identity. His latest show at the Victoria Miro Gallery, a pairing of films which, he says, will eventually be part of a trio of related works, again addresses [...]