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Category: Books
Translations of Youth
Adam Karni Cohen reviews Someone to Run With by David Grossman
The Atlantic Divide
America, as the sole global superpower, believes in Hobbesian power politics. It can and will fight, and might means right.
No Place Like Home
The interviews are simply spewing with hate; race hatred, class hatred and misogyny are constantly espoused until the encounters begin to take on a frightening sense of déjà vu.
In Search of Identity
Ghada Karmi: ‘I was truly displaced, dislocated in both mind and body, straddling two cultures and unable to belong in either.’
Under Scrutony
The title of Roger Scruton’s latest book is deliberately offensive.
The Quest for Synthesis: An Interview with Ziauddin Sardar
Multiculturalism is all about subverting the power of western civilisation…
Interview with Hanif Kureishi
‘Multiculturalism’, he says, ‘is the idea that one might be changed by other ideas’. It is a movement based on the dialogic exchange of ideas, even traditions, based on ‘the idea that purity is incestuous’.
Between the Cynics & the Sycophants
Zadie Smith’s critics seem to fall into two stubbornly delineated camps: There are the sycophants, who fall at her feet and praise her to the skies, declaring her to be not only the next Rushdie, Dickens, Amis and McEwan all rolled into one (the sum being greater than its constituent parts); and there are the cynics, who claim that had Zadie Smith not existed she would have been invented by the media anyway.