The New York Times has held firm on its ‘it is tribalism‘ thesis in its news coverage of the current political crisis in Kenya. (Incidentally, by yesterday morning the story was already off the front pages and moved below the fold to page 9). That thesis of ‘old hatreds’ was (briefly) debunked on its op-ed [...]
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Aidan Hartley and the Samburu warriors
Posted in J M Coetzee, Kenya, New York Times, pogroms on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Siddhartha Deb on J M Coetzee
Posted in J M Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, South Africa on December 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
‘In 2002, J. M. Coetzee moved from South Africa to Australia, exchanging one white colony for another, leaving behind the fractious, brutal, and failed project of apartheid for citizenship in a democratic state far more successful at dispossessing its indigenous people. Coetzee has lived in places other than South Africa before, notably England and the [...]
White Flight
Posted in Books, J M Coetzee, literature, Nobel Prize, post-1994 South Africa, postapartheid, South Africa on December 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Why did J M Coetzee leave South Africa? The New York Times Book Review‘s Rachel Donadio (she’s a writer and critic at the Book Review) on whether there’s more to J M Coetzee‘s decision to emigrate to Australia. The usual suspects — Nadine Gordimer, Damon Galgut — to Homi Bhabha (‘… a friend of Coetzee’s’), [...]
JM Coetzee and ‘living outside history’
Posted in J M Coetzee, London Review of Books, South Africa on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
J.M. Coetzee (the South African novelist who emigrated to Australia] is a ‘cold’ person (apparently he thinks so himself) and wishes ‘to live outside history.’ Michael Wood runs out of things to say about the Nobel Prize laureate’s new novel, Diary of a Bad Year, and Coetzee’s book of essays, Inner Workings: Essays 2000-2005, in [...]
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