It is by pure happenstance that within the month I read something by Orhan Pamuk, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel Prize committee lauded the Turkish writer as one “who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing […]
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Within months of the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon held a special screening of the film Battle of Algiers, supposedly to show how and why France failed in its struggle against Algerian urban guerilla warfare and terrorism. Later, others wondered about the film’s depiction of torture and its impact on American policy in light of […] Umberto Eco is one of those authors who frustrates me. I truly enjoyed The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum as much, if not more. On the other hand, I gave up on Baudolino after about 100 pages. I did not give up on Eco’s new work, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, but […] |
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