Poetry Online has Willy Maley’s poem, On My Father’s Refusal to Renew his Subscription to The Beijing Review, together with comments from the author and his editor.
Once you’ve read the poem you’ll want to hear what the author and editor have to say about it.
When Daddy died, his papers consisted of two passports, [...]
Yann Martel goes into the void. The author of Life of Pi considers the genesis of his novel: I wandered around Bombay in a state of interior bleakness.
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Spain is hoping to recognise its authoritarian past officially. After months of haggling, and fierce opposition from conservatives, the ruling Socialists have introduced a bill that condemns Franco’s [...]
The South was Colm Tóibín’s first novel, published in 1990. Katherine Proctor, an Irish protestant, arrives in Barcelona in the 1950s having abandoned her husband and ten-year-old son. She discovers the city and meets local artists. Franco’s dictatorship and the still recent civil war haunts the immediate past of those around her. [...]
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