Archive for November, 2008
The Indispensable Musician: Barenboim Backstage
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Daniel Barenboim. (32 minutes, 15 mb mp3)
Daniel Barenboim‘s conversation starts high as a kite on the fumes of the Wagner he’s been rehearsing, then lands with both feet on the Middle East. “The situation in the Middle East has never …
Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies
Anti-imperial novelist Amitav Ghosh marks the links between the 19th Century Opium Wars and our war in Iraq in his new epicSea of Poppies.
Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian\'s novels and stories are driven, he says, by the feeling that it\'s his fault that George Bush is our president.
This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: John Comaroff
The Obama Moment, says Anthropologist John Comaroff, marks the world\'s notice of \"the reentry of a pariah nation\" (that\'s us).
New Conversation, New Narrative: Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish, the Culture Warrior, sees the imperturbably civil and centered Barack Obama as the model of a new public conversation.
The Hunter’s Evidence: Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg, the father of \"micro-history,\" learned from Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud, among others, the art of unearthing secrets from, as Freud said, \"the rubbish heap\" of evidence all around us.
Thank you, Studs Terkel!
The late Studs Terkel celebrates a version of himself, Walt Whitman, on the 150th anniversary of \"Leaves of Grass.\"
