Slovenačke male priče
AKO se uspeh jedne predstave, između ostalog, meri aplauzom publike, onda je predstava “Sam kraj sveta”, prema tekstu Žan-Lika Lagarsaa, u režiji Vlatka Ilića, Malog pozorišta “Duško Radović” iz Beograda, ispunila stroge kriterijume gledalaca u nedelju na sceni Sterijinog pozorja. Iste večeri, na repertoaru “Krugova”, briljirala je predstava “Fragile!” Slovenskog mladinskog gledališča iz Ljubljane, prema tekstu Tene Štivčić i u režiji Matjaža Pograjca. Komad proglašen najboljim u Sloveniji prošle sezone bio je pravo osveženje za publiku, ushićenu igrom grupe odličnih glumaca na praznoj pozornici.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
t’s not that hard to understand why Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, “The Kite Runner” (2003), became such a huge best seller, based largely on word of mouth and its popularity among book clubs and reading groups. Whereas “The Kite Runner” focused on fathers and sons, and friendships between men, his latest novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” focuses on mothers and daughters, and friendships between women. Whereas “Kite Runner” got off to a gripping start and stumbled into contrivance and sentimentality in its second half, “Splendid Suns” starts off programmatically and gains speed and emotional power as it slowly unfurls.
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Would newspapers benefit if readers owned them?
A journalism academic believes he has the answer to the current US newspaper ownership crisis: form readership co-operatives. Boston University journalism professor Chris Daly argues his case in some detail on his blog. He begins by asking whether who owns papers, and how they own them, makes much difference to the journalism. His answer: of course it does.
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Babes in Arms
The great benefit of Ishmael Beah’s memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah’s autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine — perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer.
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Sierra Leone’s sexual abuse pandemic
by Mike Pflanz
On a hot and humid afternoon last week, in Kailahun, a town nine hours drive east of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, I sat down for one of the hardest interviews I have ever conducted.
In a bare hospital room, a nine year old girl who I will call Mary sat silently with her mother on a wipe-down plastic mattress, her bare legs swinging like a pendulum a foot off the floor and her small hands nervously massaging her knees. Her restless eyes darted around the room’s grime-covered walls as her mother, timidly and through tears, told me how Mary was raped by a family friend after a party.
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A preview of road pricing to come
by David Millward
More and more cities will begin to introduce the charges
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Wolfowitz blames media for exit
The outgoing president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, has told the BBC an “overheated” atmosphere at the bank and in the media forced him to resign. Mr Wolfowitz stood down after a scandal over his role in winning a new pay and promotion package for his girlfriend.
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An attack on civil liberties that won’t make us safer
This government has got too used to bouncing Parliament and the country into accepting ever more stringent restrictions of civil liberties by uttering the talismanic words “security” and “terror”. It feels enabled to do so by opinion polls that appear to show that the public values its safety, loosely conceived, above almost all other considerations, including liberty, no doubt because most people believe it is someone else’s liberty rather than their own that is at risk.
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