Word: revolutionism
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It is impossible to read “North of South,” Shiva Naipaul’s cynical yet deeply moving account of a late 1970s journey through East Africa, without being reminded of the travel writings of his legendary elder brother, V.S. Naipaul. Only 40 when he...
“First they’re flattered...secondly, you get an idea of his work situation,” said Ladjevardi, who served as ICMS’ vice president from 1972 until it closed in 1978, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution. “Sometimes a...
Bayou, Delli and their friends say they're not out for revolution, or even to impose their philosophy. They suggest changes not from any deep-seated ideological position but to get people talking. They want in on the game like everyone else, they say - only in a viable, sustainable way...
But God and Empire - and the shadows they have cast over Britain - have been very good to Kureishi, providing him with two rich seams of material for his fiction. "When I was a kid, people were always talking about the death of the novel," he says, sitting in a caf...
At 55, Kureishi is a tidy man, his shirt buttoned, his gray curls - and his sentences - clipped. He was "very pleased and flattered" by his CBE and extols a recent stint teaching at Yale as "very comfy." But his spot in the cultural establishment is proof that his revolution succeeded...