Publisher's Synopsis
Vade Mecum brings together Richard Skinnerâs best essays, reviews and interviews from 1992-2014. There are close critical engagements with writers (Kazuo Ishiguro, Italo Calvino, Shakespeareâs The Tempest) and composers (Erik Satie, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari), meditations on films and filmmakers (Antonioni, Krzysztof KieÅlowski, Chinatown) and idiosyncratic reflections on Werner Herzogâs Of Walking in Ice and Steely Dan.