“The Question of Bruno” by Aleksandar Hemon
The writing grabbed me from page one: there is a real rhythm to it, and the description is beautiful. The first story in the collection is the sort…
How to explain the credit crunch to a five-year-old
1. The government promised Mummy and Daddy they would be happy if they spent their lives working to make someone else rich.…
“Prisons we choose to live inside” by Doris Lessing
"Of course, there are original minds, people who do take their own line, who do not fall victim to the need to…
Food crisis
Wonderful article in the December New Internationalist about the global food crisis. As the magazine points out, we hear a lot about…
Quote for the day
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.…
“The Steep Approach to Garbadale” by Iain Banks
I particularly liked that although most of the story is told from Alban's point of view, he is described at first from the outside, first from his cousin…