Part OnePart Three IV. On the Subject of Apartheid Jim Hicks: In framing our next discussion around Friel’s useful comparison, and drawing out of the parallel, between apartheid in South Africa and the recent history of Israel and Palestine, because of the subject of Adam’s work, I was no doubt mainly thinking . . .
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Part OnePart Two III. The View from Outside Jim Hicks: In the questions I sent you both, I’m afraid I wasn’t very effective at framing the next topic, but what I’d like to ask you both is rather simple: how do you think Friel’s arguments might resonate outside the US? My sense . . .
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Part One II. The Metaphor of the Lion Jim Hicks: Well, we’ve already come close to a second point I wanted to discuss, because I find it really striking and deeply frightening—the characterization that Dershowitz uses to describe what he paints as the enemy, the metaphor of the lion. I thought that . . .
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Editor’s Note: After attending a launch event for Howard Friel’s Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of CIvil Liberties, we asked a couple of friends of MR to sit down for conversation about the book and the crucial issues it raises. What follows is the first of a five-part discussion. I. The . . .
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Editor’s Note. When we first read “Night Man,” Bill Pitts‘s contribution to our current issue, we figured the backstory might be as good as the story. So we asked him to tell you about it. Crisp County’s prison closed in 1975, a few years after I was born, but I have been hearing about . . .
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No need to explain the rules here—you’ve all played tag. So… Deb Gorlin, you’re it!! What is the working title of your book?Relative Distance Where did the idea come from for the book?My first book, Bodily Course, was frantic about bodies, incarnating, embodying, deploying language as a form of transubstantiation. I was like . . .
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Adélia & yours truly, Ouro Prieto, Brazil. August, 2011. I’ve been tagged! Thank you to fellow Tupelonian Karen An-hwei Lee for inviting me to participate in this bloggy Next Big Thing thing, 10 interview questions about what’s doing in my writing life. If you’ve not read Karen’s ingenious, sensual, and seriously playful . . .
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