The second novel by Hari Kunzru, the critically acclaimed author of The Impressionist. A novel about Globalization, Computer viruses and Bollywood!
Per Petterson and the notion of contemporary existentialism – http://t.co/vql31bV # A.L Kennedy )@writerer) on inspiration http://t.co/kLNOR9c # On reading the opening of Peter Handke's The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick http://t.co/dx3XbW2 # great article on the success of one of our favourite publishing houses -@EuropaEditions http://t.co/M3PwyHi # RT @boduweb how the crowd is […]
Great (audio) interview with John Banville/Benjamin Black – http://t.co/CnLxO2d # the novel is one of Europe’s greatest gifts… America and Africa gave the world jazz. We’ll call it even. http://t.co/YVD2ZVm # "E-books do involve lower costs, but only in manufacturing and distribution" – Jamie Byng interviewed by GQ http://t.co/jybH0kp # Here's what I hate about […]
“In a place in La Mancha, whose name I don’t wish to remember, not long ago lived a gentleman…” a gentleman of revolutionary art and innovative cinema, a gentleman armed with a camera. It’s not the first time that Almodóvar has immersed us in a world that, through being so real, seems unbelievable. In […]
Immigrants now account for ten per cent of the Irish population yet it’s rare we talk to them when we’re not at the McDonald’s drive-through. Stuck with low paying jobs Irish people don’t want to do, lodged in housing Irish people don’t want to live in and hidden from a society that treats their presence […]
&ldquoThey took all the trees Put ’em in a tree museum And they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see ’em Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot” [Joni Mitchell. &ldquoBig Yellow Taxi”] […]
Introduction Six hundred years of oppression and slavery have passed in meloncholy succession over our father's heads and our own, during which period we have been visited by every evil which tyranny could devise and cruelty execute; we have been scattered, like chaff, over the land, and our name has been forgotten among the nations. […]
Those who might think that student pranks are of recent origin should consider the following tale of events in the eighteenth century that followed the erection of an equestrian statue to commemorate the famous William, Prince of Orange. The victory of the Protestant King William of Orange (King 'Billy') over the Jacobite army of the […]
&ldquoI foresaw that in the blinding sunshine of that land I would become acquainted with a flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil of a rapacious and pitiless folly.”1 [Joseph Conrad] The later half of the nineteenth century saw a dramatic surge in colonial activity, as competing capitalist powers revisited mercantilism and sought to gain access to new […]