Eric Schlosser

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Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Armageddon time: how Stanley Kubrick made us laugh at the annihilation of the human race

Dr Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick’s biting cold war satire which is re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, is ar(...)

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Word for Word: How to cope with reader’s block
  • Books
  • August 2, 2014, 01:00

I don’t quite get paid to read, but reading is a significant part of what I do. Whether it’s reading the hundreds of submissions we receive each year,(...)

Mushroom cloud: a French nuclear test in 1971, on the south Pacific atoll of Mururoa. Photograph: AFP/Getty
In the shadow of the bomb

‘Are you military?” Eric Schlosser asks my ex-Army officer father as he gets a book signed at the Science Gallery in Dublin. Schlosser can apparently (...)

Sen David Norris at the Today FM studios on Monday, after he had his beard shaved off in aid of the Irish Cancer Society. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Radio: Roma kids get a new bogeyman for Halloween. David Norris gets a clean shave

As if to remind us that Halloween beckons, the air was thick with scary stories this week. One could scarcely tune in without hearing hair-raising acc(...)