Scoop 200610/30/2022 ![]() He spoke to Scoop about humanity's history of short-term thinking and the political and economic obstacles in the way of improving things. Writers and Readers Week: Ronald Wright (audio interview) - Ronald Wright describes his recent book A Short Historty of Progress as "a police profile of a repeat offender by the name of Homo Sapiens". This Wednesday and Friday he will discuss his recent book The Great War For Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East in two solo sessions at the Embassy Theatre chaired by former nine-to-noon Radio NZ host Linda Clark. Writers and Readers Week: Robert Fisk (audio interview) - UK Independent Newspaper foreign correspondent Robert Fisk is in New Zealand this week for the Wellington International Arts Festival's Writer's & Readers Week. He spoke to Scoop about his history, the need for women's rights in family structure, the relationship between narrative and politics and his use of English as a language for writing. Writers and Readers Week: Nuruddin Farah (audio interview) - African prose writer and playwright Nuruddin Farah was exiled from his native Somalia in 1976 as a result of his provocative writing. She also compares the state of first people issues in the United States to what she has seen of New Zealand. Writers and Readers Week: Louise Erdrich (audio interview) - Louise Erdrich spoke to Scoop about how the storytelling traditions of her family and heritage Ojibwa Indian heritage have influenced her and about writing from outside the mainstream culture. He spoke to Scoop about how he came to comics journalism, the effect that the visual medium had on documentary storytelling, the current Israel/Palestine situation and what he intends to do next. Writers and Readers Week: Joe Sacco (audio interview) - Joe Sacco is a cartoonist best known for his journalistic comics focusing on war zones. Miller spoke to Scoop about Birth of a Nation, how he uses Rebirth of a Nation to explore how it resonates in the present day and to confront the past, and his personal approach to remixing. Richard Thomson reviews Talvin Singh's Tabtek (14 March)Īrts Festival Preview: DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation (audio interview) - Rebirth of a Nation sees DJ Spooky remixing the 1915 film Birth of a Nation, known both for its technical innovation, setting many of the standard techniques of cinema, and as pro-Klu Klax Klan propaganda. ![]() ![]() Nick Tipping reviews The Hilliard Ensemble - Passio (14 March) Tyler Hersey Reviews Subramaniam (14 March) ![]()
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