The Dinner begins with a classic set up scene – two sets of parents meeting in a restaurant to sort out serious problems with their two sons.  I was reminded of the film Carnage in which Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster and their respective screen spouses meet to discuss a playground fight, but this [...]

I have been reading some fairly serious books lately covering themes of war and politics and feeling the need for something rather less demanding I decided to read Repatriated by Adriaan Van Dis (tr. David Colmer very ably from the original Dutch).  I have now spent two or three days in 1950s North Holland, where [...]