Nicholas Blincoe
Articles by Nicholas Blincoe
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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.
Life & Society
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
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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?
Culture
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
Culture
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
Culture
Silent witness
- 14 April 2003
Photography - Nicholas Blincoe on the shameful absence of a Palestinian perspective
Culture
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
