Published non-fiction
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The joy of collecting: on tangible emotions
It started, as many things do, with a coin. That first coin wasn’t even currency; it was a coin-shaped token thanking me for my participation in a Terry Fox Run at age thirteen or so. I don’t remember where the others came from, but they trickled in, qian by penny by cent, and I stuck them round… Continue reading
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“In Jackson Heights” London Film Festival review
Having rewatched this film and cheerfully argued with a friend about it, I thought I’d dig up a review I did on it for a London arts mag way back when the film first opened. So if you like documentaries, read on… A study in unassuming observation, In Jackson Heights is director Frederick Wiseman’s 40th… Continue reading
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Killing Joke: The Death and Resurrection Show
Killing Joke are on tour again, and to mark the occasion, I’m sharing a review I wrote a year ago, originally published here Ten years in the making, and with a running time of nearly two and a half hours, The Death and Resurrection Show is director Shaun Pettigrew’s epic anthem to the career of… Continue reading
Jane Alyson Clarke 