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Overweight, yes, (and I am myself in that category, so I’m not saying that from some high horse) but also just tall and broad and loud, taking up space in a jarringly different way than most of the people I’d been surrounded by for the past three years. The second thing I not...
Despite the difficulties poised by the difference in languages (Adarfio is not fluent in English and the audience comprised of members of various peoples organizations under the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan), Adarfio’s audience found his talk about the struggle of the Venezuelan people against imperia...
and strange ones from ‘Strangers on a Train’, as well as rousing readings from train-related incidents by Richard Yates, Kate Atkinson, Paul Theroux, Angela Carter and Arundhati Roy, before entering the tunnel of our own tales from the ‘Stations’ anthology. ...
Janine di Giovanni, Lena Dunham, Amity Gaige, Gabrielle Hamilton, Martin Hagglund, Eloisa James, Neil Jordan, Sophie Kinsella, Dean Koontz, Yotam Ottolenghi, Peter Meehan, Julie Orringer, Ivy Pochoda, Jason Rezaian, Arundhati Roy, Kathryn Schulz, Lionel Shriver, Lalita Tademy, Christina Tosi, an...
To seek joy in the saddest places.To pursue beauty to its lair.To never simplify what is complicatedor complicate what is simple.To respect strength, never power.Above all, to watch. To try to understand.To never look away. And never, never, to forget.- Arundhati Roy...
To seek joy in the saddest places.To pursue beauty to its lair.To never simplify what is complicatedor complicate what is simple.To respect strength, never power.Above all, to watch. To try to understand.To never look away. And never, never, to forget.- Arundhati Roy...
Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist Source: An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (2005), p. 86 Source: War Talk Art , Literature , Joy 3 “If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And ...
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Had to start this book a second time before I really got into it. It creeps into you like rain forest dampness. Very evocative and very powerful. While the setting is Kerala, in tropical southern India, it could be anywhere rural and stifling. I...