New Statesman - Nicholas Blincoe

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International Politics

Palestine’s comeback kid

20 August 2009

The first Fatah congress for 20 years featured new faces, sore losers – and a very complicated election.

International Politics

Tell the ambassador we haven't a clue

25 October 2007

Condoleezza Rice arrives in a US motorcade with CIA outriders and no one in the police or government has the foggiest idea what's going on - it's a metaphor for the peace process

Books

A blinding light

13 September 2007

A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

V S Naipaul Picador, 256pp, £16.99

Books

Chaos theories

28 June 2007

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

John Gray Allen Lane, 242pp, £18.99

ISBN 0713999152

Books

Pimp my lines

19 March 2007

Rappers, argues Nicholas Blincoe, are first and foremost poets. But as Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent bid for literary respectability, can they stand up to Keats and Dylan?

Books

Rock and read

20 October 2003

The fashionable American quarterly McSweeney's has attracted some of our most successful writers - including Zadie Smith and Nick Hornby (left). Now it is staging literary and musical extravaganzas. Novelists are finally having fun, discovers Nicholas Blincoe

Film

Shoot and run

21 July 2003

Palestinian cinema is starting to emerge with its own distinctive, improvisational style. But it's not all suffering and martyrdom. Many of the films are surprisingly funny

Middle East

Silent witness

14 April 2003

Photography - Nicholas Blincoe on the shameful absence of a Palestinian perspective

Middle East

Cartoon wars

06 January 2003

By dramatising events in comic-book form, Joe Sacco's Palestine exposes the fantasy of the Israeli occupation

Culture

Moving target

03 June 2002

Video games - Nicholas Blincoe takes a nostalgia trip back to the virtual reality of the Eighties