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The model citizen
Just before Easter, I took a day trip and magic happened. Here's how an exhibition, an event and a book seemed to speak as one, pointing the way to a…
Apr 21
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James Caig
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March 2023
The ceaseless flow of Screamadelica: a symphony in three parts
This is a long piece on memory and music and the tricks we play on ourselves. It's about being young, ageing, and having faith that the art you need…
Mar 31
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James Caig
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December 2022
Returning to myself
It's been months since I've written here. But a performance of Joni Mitchell's music by Eska and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra was too good not to write…
Dec 13, 2022
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James Caig
April 2021
What do you read a book with?
“The laughs come hard in Auld Lang Syne,” sang the Beach Boys, bitterly, and from experience by the sounds of it. In a song called Surf’s Up, from an…
Apr 8, 2021
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James Caig
March 2021
Time is a flat circle
Do you remember True Detective? The one with Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The one set in the Deep South where Woody Harrelson and Matthew…
Mar 12, 2021
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James Caig
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February 2021
Sitting is an eloquent business
January. On an otherwise featureless midweek day of the new year, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I’m awake and there’s a storm outside. The storm outside…
Feb 26, 2021
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James Caig
On Magic
This post is adapted from a short talk I gave to students enrolled on Kingston University’s Critical Studies & Creative Industries programme. Rina has…
Feb 17, 2021
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James Caig
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The Ballad Of Mackie Messer
Maybe if the barrel organ had worked that night, things would be very different. But, on the very night the new song was first performed, in 1928, this…
Feb 10, 2021
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James Caig
January 2021
The Glass Wall
Strange, isn’t it, how we warm to the characters of Succession. What with the ostentatious wealth, the relentless competitive rudeness, the…
Jan 22, 2021
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James Caig
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December 2020
LIFE AT 45
It’s my birthday today. I am 45. That’s 45 revolutions around the sun. When I turned 44 I had a party - decks in the house, dancing, that sort of thing…
Dec 7, 2020
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James Caig
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November 2020
SCRATCHING AND THIEVING
A trip to the theatre and the search for meaning
Nov 26, 2020
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James Caig
More News From Nowhere
Hello. I’m James Caig. I use this place to think out loud about the stuff that interests me. Stories, art and culture, other people’s writing. It might…
Nov 26, 2020
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James Caig
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