Broken April | Ismail Kadare

Broken April by Ismail Kadare is mostly a description of Blood feuds in Albenian highlands, bound by the laws of Kanun. It starts of as a story about a man, Gjorg Berisha, who is bound in a blood feud, spanning several decades and almost 70 deaths between two families. Now it is his turn [...]

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s Interview

In a candid interview here at The Paris Review, Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his passions, obsessions, music that inspired him, his American dream, his books an all.
Here’s something from the interview.
INTERVIEWER
How did the English setting come about for The Remains of the Day?
ISHIGURO
It started with a joke that my wife made. There was a journalist [...]

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Learning German

This essay: The Awful German Language by Mark Twain throws some light-hearted light upon the difficulties in the language. German language, along with Latin and Russian, is said to be one of the difficult language to master. Since I have already paid my money at the Goethe Center, I guess I will have to live [...]

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Reviews of Ballard’s Biography

Here at LRB Thomas Jones talks about Ballard’s views on Crash while reviewing his biography “Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton“.
Crash, Ballard’s most controversial and second most famous book, explores the idea that there is ‘a strong connection between sexuality and the car crash, a fusion largely driven by the cult of celebrity’: just think [...]

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Things Fall Apart

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
– W B Yeats, “The Second Coming”
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is shows life in an African village Umuofia, of Ibo society, right before and after the Foreigners, or the so called [...]

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Werner Herzog in conversation with Errol Morris

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WERNER HERZOG: Walking out of one of your films, I always had the feeling-the sense that I’ve seen a movie, that I’ve seen something equivalent to a feature film. That’s very much the feeling of the feature film Vernon, Florida or even the film with McNamara-The Fog of War. Even there I have the feeling [...]

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Into The Wild

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
– Lord Byron
Into the Wild is based upon a work by Jon Krakauer about the real life adventures of Christopher [...]

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Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown

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Nothing concrete, the article just gives insight on latest clues and advances.

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Waiting for the Barbarians

For Coetzee there are no absolute truths, but several small, big, convenient, not so convenient, approachable truths. And these seemingly approachable truths support, contradict, elevate, and undermine each other. All having their share of doubts and conflicts, further muddled by our human lives, the beliefs, the situations within. Take any fictional work of Coetzee, whenever [...]

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Pamuk on his Writing & Sufism

I am interested in Sufism as a literary source. As a discipline comprising positions and actions that train the soul, I cannot engage with it, but I look at the literature of Sufism as a literary treasure. As I sit at my table, the child of a republican family, i live like a man committed [...]

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