Sally Rooney’s follow-up book to her smash first novel was just named Waterstone’s Book of the Year, but she doesn’t want people to think she believes the hype. “I certainly never intended to speak for anyone other than myself. Even myself I find it difficult to speak for. My books may well fail as artistic endeavours but I don’t want them to fail for failing to speak for a generation for which I never intended to speak in the first place.”
Tag: 12.02.18
The Long Shadow Of Machismo In Latin American Publishing
When Nona Fernández delved into Chilean history in her novels, the reaction was “Why aren’t you writing about bulemia?” she says. Columbia writer Laura Restrepo, whose novel Leopard in the Sun was about violence between feuding drug lords, says a publisher told her she wrote like a man. “Misogyny is slow to leave the world of letters,” say seven authors – but this year, after decades, things seem to be changing.
One Theatre, Three Actors, Overcoming Trump’s Travel Ban
Celebrities including Sting and Benedict Cumberbatch, the mayors of New York and London, and the former archbishop of Canterbury intervened with the Trump administration The Jungle was a hit in London, and “the creative team and producers were reluctant to move the play without all the cast members, saying their life experiences — several had lived in the Calais refugee camp being depicted — gave the show its authenticity. But trying to get two Iranians and a Syrian into Trump-era America to perform a drama that is inherently sympathetic to refugees was, to put it mildly, daunting.”
Restaurants Are Public Spaces, And They – Like A Lot Of Public Spaces – Are Dying
And for this, you can blame Uber.
The City Where China’s Epic Battles Of The Past (And The Mind’s Invention) Are Staged And Restaged
Hengdian claims to be the world’s largest outdoor set – but there are 13 sets, and a creation of the Forbidden City that is only a bit smaller than the real thing in Beijing.