Links

Some interesting links:

An essay by Ian Buruma on Berlin Alexanderplatz (both the film and the novel) in the latest new york review of books.

Claire Messud reviews J M Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year. Her better half reviewed the same book a while back in the new yorker.

A profile-essay on Harold Pinter and his play Homecoming.

I hadn't even heard of Sweeney Todd before Tim Burton decided to make a movie out of it. Some catching up via this old article in the new yorker