Best of the Web featuring Yann Martel, Room and a Half and Joseph Brodsky...

CultureCritic | 07.April.2010 | 11:59

A peak at Yann Martel's new book...

When film directors make music videos...

Joseph Brodsky has a Room and a Half in St Petersburg...

...and this is where Mr Brodksy exercised his native tongue...

Pleased to eat you...

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Nick | 07.April.2010 | 16:03 | ReportThat music videos article is pretty great. There are some great ideas about what could have been... like a psychotic, cross-dressing Bruce Springsteen...

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Cinema

100%	La Grande Illusion
86%	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
81%	The Cabin in the Woods
78%	Avengers Assemble
76%	Monsieur Lazhar
76%	Marley
75%	Le Havre
75%	Corpo Celeste
74%	The Kid With a Bike
73%	Goodbye First Love
73%	North Sea Texas
73%	Bill Cunningham New York
73%	Breathing
71%	Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life
68%	The Hunger Games

Recorded music

88%	Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge
85%	Jack White - Blunderbuss
85%	Xiu Xiu - Always
82%	Father John Misty - Fear Fun
79%	The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know
79%	Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
78%	Hospitality - Hospitality
74%	Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
74%	Beach House - Bloom
74%	Amadou & Mariam - Folila
73%	Bowerbirds - The Clearing
73%	Best Coast - The Only Place
72%	The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Aufheben
71%	Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
70%	Pond - Beard Wives Denim

Books

93%	Nick Harkaway - Angelmaker
90%	Peter Carey - The Chemistry of Tears
90%	Grace McCleen - The Land of Decoration
90%	Iain Banks - Stonemouth
83%	Claude Lanzmann - The Patagonian Hare
81%	HHhH - Laurent Binet
80%	Hilary Mantel - Bring up the Bodies
76%	Andrew Motion - Silver
76%	Nadine Gordimer - No Time Like the Present
75%	Toni Morrison - Home
73%	Charlotte Rogan - The Lifeboat
73%	Irvine Welsh - Skagboys
72%	Greg Baxter - The Apartment

Exhibitions

85%	Miró: Sculptor
76%	Yayoi Kusama
76%	Song Dong - Waste Not
75%	Patrick Keiller: The Robinson Institute
75%	Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed
72%	Brains: The Mind As Matter
71%	The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned
67%	Remote Control
64%	Alighiero Boetti - Game Plan
55%	Damien Hirst
45%	Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude

Theatre
Opera & Dance

86%	Singin' in the Rain
80%	Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
80%	A Slow Air
72%	The Real Thing
70%	Mary Shelley
25%	Babel

75%	A Streetcar Named Desire
72%	English Touring Opera - Eugene Onegin
63%	Madam Butterfly