Archive for April, 2008
From an interview with Richard Ford, conducted (in Dublin) by Pablo Guimón, published in the Babelia
books and culture section of El País on April 26th:
Q. You wrote the novel (Lay of the Land) after 9/11 but decided to locate the action ten months earlier. Too soon to tackle it?
A. Yes, it was. Only this winter [...]
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Reactions to drb Spring 2008
The troubles in Ireland claimed many victims: Protestants, Catholics, and now, with this book [Paul Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006], the Amazonian rainforest.
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Le Monde (April 22nd) records the death, on April 19th, of French ethnologist Germaine Tillion at the age of 100. Her published work (much more is available in French than in English) includes studies of clans and kinship and of women’s oppression in Mediterranean societies as well as an account of Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Tillion’s first [...]
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