James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellHere’s to CrimeActors, like artists, often reveal themselves in the jobs they take for the money — and in the projects that get away from them. Orson…Apr 3, 2022Apr 3, 2022
James SnellPaper TigersThis essay collection is now available to buy on the Kindle store. A full text version is below. It can also be downloaded as a PDF. Paper…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
James SnellWhite SpaceThis essay collection is now available to buy on the Kindle store. A full text version is below. It can also be downloaded as a PDF. White…Nov 24, 2021Nov 24, 2021
James SnellOn Being Left a LibraryOf all the features of bereavement, cardboard boxes are the most incongruous and the most inevitable. They help, and sometimes obstruct…Nov 10, 2021Nov 10, 2021
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellTurkish TroublesWith a seeming spirit of negotiation sweeping the Middle East, it’s easy enough to make rash predictions. Saudi Arabia talking to Iran and…May 13, 2021May 13, 2021
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellGiving ThanksI made a mistake, in the pages of a British magazine last month, by announcing the dawning of an era in which Giuseppe Conte, then the…Feb 26, 2021Feb 26, 2021
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellThis Is What Living With the Virus Would Have MeantIt’s New Year’s Day and, as is traditional, I am laid low by ill health. I am not, to my knowledge, hungover. But no matter, when the year…Jan 1, 20211Jan 1, 20211
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellKidnapping and MurderYesterday or thereabouts, deaf to all the clamour this action created, the Iranian state put Ruhollah Zam to death. Zam was a journalist…Dec 14, 2020Dec 14, 2020
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellTape Up Your WebcamYou may have heard about, or more pertinently you may have seen, a recent scrape involving legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin, scion of…Oct 22, 2020Oct 22, 2020
James SnellinCorrespondence, by James SnellClass GaspPeregrine Worsthorne died not too long ago, at a great age. A former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and an ensign-bearer in retirement not…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020