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Scarlet skins and Dystopian Letters: Hillary Jordan in Interview
Monday, January 23rd, 2012“When she woke, she was Red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign. She saw her hands first. She held them in front of her eyes, squinting up at them. For a few seconds, shadowed by her eyelashes and backlit by the hard white light emanating from the ceiling, [...]
From George Orwell to Vaclav Havel – translating the language of democracy
Monday, June 1st, 2009Any English—speaker to whom Vaclav Havel has mattered owes a debt they’re probably unaware of to Paul Wilson. His work as the Czech writer’s translator began thirty years ago but I discover, over a cup of coffee off Russell Square, that he first came to London from his native Canada ten years before that, to [...]
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays – Christopher Hitchens
Sunday, January 30th, 2005Collected essays from the celebrated and controversial Hitchens, ranging from responses to September 11th, through to literary criticism.
Mapping the past – the Historian’s dilemma.
Thursday, July 1st, 2004Historians take from the past only what suits their purposes. Of the last 2500 years of historiography the above statement probably holds true for most of the period and for most of the historians. It can be argued that it is the historian’s job to take from the past what suits their purpose. The Historian [...]
