Demob Happy

In the grips of drug addiction
7/10
Half Nelson tells the story of an idealistic young teacher Dan, unable to break his cycle of cocaine and crack abuse. Labouring under the delusion that he will finish an illustrated children’s book on ‘dialectics’, he teaches history at a run-down innercity school. Bringing left-wing theory into his lessons [...]

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On ‘On Beauty’
7/10
Having never read Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth’ or ‘Autograph Man’ - put off by the ubiquitous trendiness of the former and ambivalent reviews for the latter - I read On Beauty without the baggage of preconception and felt it to be a strong piece of work. Zadie Smith is clearly a considerable [...]

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