Taproot: A newsletter on literature and culture
Leo Robsonbooks, films, intellectual history, the creative process
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I gave an interview. . .
I talked at decent length with Leonard Benardo, the editor of The Ideas Letter and a vice president of the Open Society Foundations, about what’s good about criticism and some of the things it has done and can do. . .
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Granta film series / Joachim Trier debut / 2.7.26
THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2026*
7.30 p.m.
In tandem with the Spring 2026 issue of Granta, devoted to Scandinavian writer, Regent Street Cinema will be showing Reprise (2006), a film about novelists in Oslo, the debut of director Joachim Trier...
Notes on Spielberg
Here for this week’s New Statesman is a sort of whistlestop tour of one of the two post-Jaws strands of Spielberg’s career – his science fiction or fantasy films. I like the below photo but in fact I don’t write much about E.T., partly beca...
American film writing c.2026
My first contribution to The Ideas Letter considers the work of the reviewer and essayist A S Hamrah in the context of recent American film criticism. It appears as the lead piece in the ‘Terms of Art’ issue, under the title ‘He Lost It At...
Notes on Hamrah
Here is my first contribution to The Ideas Letter. It looks at the work of the reviewer and essayist A S Hamrah in the context of contemporary American film criticism, and appears as the lead piece in the ‘Terms of Art’ issue, under the tit...
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I am writer based in London, specializing in cultural journalism, bylines in the New Statesman, New Left Review, New Yorker.
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