"It seemed interesting and topical for us to do a parody on the Russian middle class".
As the London bombings made clear, the subject is likely to remain topical for a long time to come.
Though the premise of the novel may seem too topical for its own good, Adams displays a gift for detail and character that takes us fully inside the complex systems of survival, kinship, and religious ideology which form Aziz's world.
Released to coincide with AFL Indigenous Round, The Short Long Book is also now all the more topical for the discussion surrounding the war dance performed by Sydney's Adam Goodes, another source of Flanagan's interest.
Mr Kurlansky returns to the subject with his latest work, "The Food of a Younger Land", an anthology of food writing from 1930s America.This apparently arcane material is topical for two reasons.
Yet returning to "Clybourne Park" — which features its original excellent cast and sure-footed director, Pam MacKinnon — I realized that this play probably will be topical for many years to come.
Mostly on an appropriately political theme, Graham has in recent years penned This House, about the 1974 hung Parliament (yes, that topical) for the National Theatre Channel 44's drama Coalition (there's a theme here); and the polling-night drama The Vote (Donmar Warehouse, WC2, to Thu).
Extreme value prediction of combined first- and second-order motions of a moored floating structure has remained topical for years.
