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Books news, reviews and author interviews
David Hare made his name in the 1960s as a young, provocative playwright – on the left with a sense of humour. He recalls his early and controversial plays, from Slag to Plenty, his revelation about writing and what happened when Helen Mirren couldn’t sing

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Table of Contents - Magazine The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” Crops stretch to the horizon. Black bodies pepper the landscape, hunched over as they work the fields. Officers on horseback, armed, oversee the workers. To the untrained eye, the scenes in Angola for Life: Rehabilitation and Reform Inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, an Atlantic documentary filmed on an old Southern slave-plantation-turned-prison, could have been shot 150 years ago. The imagery haunts, and the stench of slavery and racial oppression lingers through the 13 minutes of footage.

BBC News homepage How to change your view of Africa Chimurenga, a pan-African English-language journal, depicts the continent’s horrors, sometimes from very close... I once had coffee in Cape Town with a Cameroonian named Ntone Edjabe. He ran an English-language journal called Chimurenga, but what I remembered from our chat were his vignettes of Lagos (where he’d studied) and Johannesburg (where he went next). In Lagos, he said, you’d be driving down the highway and suddenly see a guy selling cars on the highway.

Tattered Cover Read & Feed February: Love it or loathe it. Don’t gobblefunk around with words. Celebrate your freedom to read with us. Don’t be Absurd. Read Banned Books freely. Books Berlusconi’s So-Called Bunga-Bunga Life By Barbie Latza Nadeau In a new authorized biography, ‘My Way,’ there’s an ‘awestruck’ Putin, the sick joke he and Gaddafi made famous—and the Italian playboy PM who remains as slippery as ever. Books News and Opinion on The Huffington Post Granta Magazine 天南杂志 Europrogocontestovision

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