Sitemap - 2024 - Don Nordberg (is/on) writing
Is Santa Claus coming to town? Is that a lie?
What’s the problem with male coppers?
‘Sugar’ – something odd about this defective detective
‘Hit Man,’ a movie in which personality is on the move
Fiction, the cognitive revolution, and the environment – on Harari and Sapiens
Orbital – a flight into the interior
2024 doesn’t have to be Nineteen Eighty-Four
With Banville, The Sea beckons
Writing, reading, and a game of chess
‘The Man in the Hat’ is worthy of a tip of the hat
In Dead Man Singing – memories of a prior self
March of machines – a contest of author vs ChatGPT
What’s broken in The House of Broken Bricks?
‘Unbroken’: Gaslighting from all directions
Some (few) shall have prizes! What’s in a debut?
Lying in pursuit of truth? Journalism in ‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘Enemy of the People’
Repetition and variation grabs us in 'The Gone'
Lessons still to learn from McEwan’s Lessons
Goodbye, Montalbano! And Goodbye, Camilleri.
The White Feather – a story about not telling stories
‘Gray’ – because ‘not everything is black or white’
How Paul Auster helps me cope with quantum mechanics …
In 'Arctic Circle' the manifestly untrue feels real
Jack London, preachiness, and old ideas in novel circumstances
Why we (or I) spend so much time on what we (I) know is untrue
‘Pandore’ (‘Pandora’) – A tragedy, or comedy-in-the-making?
‘Collateral’ – lasting damage? Almost
The poetics of ‘Rocco Schiavone’ sound good to me
‘Ein Krimi aus Passau’ – ‘Dark Rivers’ run (pretty) deep
Hold your horses – and take it slow
‘Il Commissario Ricciardi’ (Rai 1, 2021)
Pears’s An Instance of the Fingerpost
‘Die Toten von Marnow’ (‘Marnow Murders,’ 2021)
‘Herrens Veje’ (‘Ride upon the storm’ DR Drama)
Philosopher meets fiction: Auster’s Baumgartner
A murder mystery with more than a twist: ‘Sacha’
Fiction of ideas – or ideas in fiction?
On the sofa, on the wall, a girl
Truth, will, and what we get out of it
‘Silent Witness,’ Season 27 (BBC, 2024)
Heroes, cynicism, irony and hope
‘Babylon Berlin’ (Sky Deutschland)
Ceasing to Understand the World
Not happy in ‘Happy Valley’ (Season 3, BBC)