An interview with Homi Bhabha
For journals, Europe as a concept is worthwhile only if conceived of as a threshold to be surpassed, Homi Bhabha argues in interview with Emrah Efe Çacmak. Their work is per se internationalist and has to link communities of intellectuals and activists around the world. [ more ]
"Index on Censorship" investigates what Bush-Cheney did to civil liberties; "Esprit" welcomes America's first Chicagoan president; "Arena" asks whether there will be a Left after capitalism; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) writes Bush's epitaph; "Samtiden" scrutinizes racism in Norway; "Dilema veche" calls for a debate on anti-Semitism in Romania; "Osteuropa" weighs up causes and effects of the Georgian war; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) reports on parallel realities in Israel; and "Magyar Lettre Internationale" prefers literary canons in the plural.
(1961) is author of Martin Walser. Eine Biographie, Rowohlt 2005.
Literary lunches aside, what are the critic's privileges? According to Jörg Magenau, it's all about accumulating others' experiences, about "being in the world", about avoiding the media's barrage of facts. And about having lots of books... [more]
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