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Wole Soyinka: The voice of conscience For decades he was the scourge of successive Nigerian despots. Now aged 72, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka tells Maya Jaggi how 'repetitions of history' - most recently the atrocities in Darfur - continue to haunt his life and work |
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David Grossman: The writing cure Living in a war zone, Israeli writer David Grossman turned away from recording the conflict in his work. But after his son was killed in the army, he found it was the only way to come to terms with his grief. |
| 20.5.2007 |
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Michael Cavayero: Rotting Straw This is the law of starvation: “Not to exercise all the power at one’s disposal…to endure the void. This is contrary to all the laws of nature.” This is its pursuit: “Grace; Grace alone…Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it.” Thus the need for starvation: “And it is grace itself which makes this void”. This will be a reckoning of two texts: Simon Weil’s ‘Gravity and Grace,’ and Kafka’s ‘A Starvation Artist’. |
| 18.5.2007 |
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Aharon Appelfeld: The Night Train to Bucharest Literature is fond of the wise child. But what of the not-so-wise child, the ordinary boy who doesn’t project greatness from the schoolyard and isn’t the hero of the nursery? What if he’s asthmatic and antisocial and throws a kicking, screaming temper tantrum when his mother goes to work? |
| 17.4.2007 |
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Ed Sanders: Report on New Orleans I went with Miriam to New Orleans for 10 days during February to celebrate Mardi Gras, and to record a book of poetry for Paris Records, Poems for New Orleans, at the Piety Street Studios, featuring music provided by local musicians which was produced and composed by Mark Bingham. Bingham is one of the owners of Piety Street, and a noted musician and composer. |
| 26.3.2007 |
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Harold Pinter: Fathers and sons How does it feel to act in a Pinter play for radio alongside the man himself? Samuel West reveals all |
| 23.3.2007 |
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Etgar Keret: Life at a louder volume Etgar Keret's ambiguous, surreal short stories, along with his films and graphic books, have made him a controversial and popular figure, often hailed as the voice of young Israelis |
| 23.3.2007 |
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Susan Sontag: The militant reader David Rieff pays tribute to his mother, Susan Sontag, for whom 'the joy of living and the joy of knowing were one and the same' |
| 17.3.2007 |
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Susan Sontag: Pay attention to the world In a previously unpublished essay, written just before her death in 2004, Susan Sontag makes a passionate case for the moral superiority of the novel in a mass-media age |
| 17.3.2007 |
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Tom Sandqvist A Word that Leads Ideas to the Hunt |
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