I recently interviewed Philip Hoare and Angela Cockayne for Three Monkeys Online about the Moby Dick Big Read.
Various 2012
Not sure if it’s available on line but I wrote a short piece for the New Internationalist about Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson Institute’, a free exhibition at the Tate Britain, based on his three Robinson films. Here’s what The Guardian thought. If you couldn’t get to London for that try to see the films anyway. I […]
Giles Fraser: Going for Brokenness
An interview for the Dissent website with the former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral, who resigned over the threat of violence against the Occupy protesters last autumn.
And Now for the Tyrants in Our Heads
This article about the Egyptian writer Nasr Abu Zayd and how he might have interpreted the Arab Uprisings will also appear in the winter issue of the Quarterly Review
Cometh the Moment, Cometh the Movie
The New Internationalist blog posted this article about Paul Goodman Changed My Life and the camp outside St Paul’s. There are details of the UK screenings (November 20th – November 23rd) at the end.
Writing the Riots
This essay is about the rioting in British cities last August. It re-visits Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd in an attempt to better understand the recent outbreaks. Published in Dissent.
Translating Egypt’s Revolution
I’ve an article in the summer issue of the Quarterly Review about the way Egyptian novelists have testified to the truth about life under Mubarak. It includes some discussion of Hani Abdul Mourid and Ahmed Alaidy, an interview with Sonallah Ibrahim and an account of Samia Mehrez’s ‘Translating the Revolution’ project, translating the banners, placards, […]
The Passion of Paul
This article about Paul Goodman, published in the December 2010 issue of the New Internationalist, has also been posted on the website of Jonathan Lee’s forthcoming documentary about him, ‘Paul Goodman Changed My Life’. Read the article here
Letter from the Edge
This is a reportage about the recent expulsions of Roma from France. Published in eurozine. Ici en francais