WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier is a blog with a difference, made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters are being posted exactly 90 years after they were written. This adds an extra dimension to the texts, as we do not know Harry’s fate, whether there will [...]
The first chapter sings out with the tones of a siren.
Griffiths voice, his eloquence, entices us in. He brushes aside our protestations.
We want to urge him to be more careful, we don’t want to be told, we want to be shown. But he communicates through a third-person, a character without literary aspirations, the voice of [...]
A few days ago I retold the story of two journalists, one American and one Italian, and their fight against the police authorities in Italy.
Douglas Preston, the American journalist, wrote to me yesterday with the following supplementary information:
This morning, unexpectedly, an independent three-judge panel annulled the imprisonment of the Italian journalist Mario Spezi and [...]
What follows is a letter from Douglas Preston, an American journalist and writer: Please read his story and blog about it.
Dear Friends and colleagues,
On April 7, my good friend and writing partner Mario Spezi, a well-known Italian journalist, was arrested and thrown into jail, in the worst abuse of state power I have ever seen [...]
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