Conquest at work (Photograph: L.A. Cicero) This text and plenty of others from the Stanford Information Service at the moment are archived and not publicly obtainable. To have fun this poet, historian, and a lot extra, I assumed I’d make at the least this one obtainable to all of you. Get pleasure from! Robert Conquest […]

Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Instructions The top of June marked the anniversary of the dying of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking Egyptian author who will not be significantly well-known, however whose work will nonetheless delight readers along with his sense of the absurd, satirical observations about energy, poverty and corruption, and sly humor. […]

A centennial celebration of poet Nissim Ezekiel compiled by his daughter, poet Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca, Nissim Ezekiel, Poet and Father (Pippa Rann Books, 2024) consists of a set of recollections, augmented by vignettes and historic data. Reminding the reader of Nissim’s enchantment and complexity as a poet, editor Vinita Agrawal displays: “A memoir requires perspective and […]

Metaphorically, propaganda is the lens of a slanted viewpoint, crafted by the state, and positioned secretly over the eyes of the unsuspecting. It’s a management mechanism, of essentially the most delicate however excessive kind, that weaves the reminiscence of half-truths into society just like the casting of so many spells. We see its expressions endlessly, […]