- Before serving on the jury at Cannes, Toni Morrison announced, “My judgment is infallible. I bring you my enthusiasm and my infallibility.” Later she heralded the impassioned debate that characterized the voting process.
- Tom Shone argues that the “curious weakness of [Chuck] Palahniuk’s neo-brutalist aesthetic is how hermetically sealed it must remain from anything that might challenge it” (i.e., Anita Brookner).
- “After making a heartfelt plea for the return of his ‘lost’ pictures,” Scottish novelist and artist Alasdair Gray “has tracked down one of his best-loved works, The Sixth Day Of Creation, just round the corner from his house.”