February 2011
5 posts
Tea With Sidi
I wrote about Sidi Touré’s extraordinary new album, Sahel Folk, for The Economist online:
Say we’re old friends. I ask you over for tea and you bring a guitar. It’s a sunny morning, so we sip and strum outside, on the fire escape. Now imagine I am a celebrated singer from Mali, with a voice as exacting as a raconteur’s. You too are a virtuoso, practiced in both the...
The Black Dog
For The Economist online, I wrote about Rebecca Hunt’s deeply funny debut novel, Mr. Chartwell:
The black dog. Just where did Winston Churchill get his famous metaphor for depression? From Arthur Conan Doyle and his diabolical Baskerville hound? Or perhaps from Samuel Johnson, who in 1783 wrote, “when I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast...
I Talk With Lindstrøm
For Interview Magazine online.
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has a way of punctuating his sentences with a little laugh that keeps conversation floating above the room. So the effect of talking with the soft-spoken Norwegian for an extended period of time is not unlike the sweeping club epics he produces for his own Feedelity label. I’ve interviewed him twice now: The first time was in the summer...
I Spent the Weekend Searching
For an out-of-date translation of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg’s beautiful short story, “The Mother.” I’m glad I did. Read more about it at The Economist online.
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Artist and Author Lauren Redniss Talks
with me for The Economist online.
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout is Lauren’s extraordinary new book. I first wrote about it last month. Because I usually don’t wear my exuberance well, I’ll spare you my thoughts on the book today. Though I do hope you take a moment to seek out Lauren’s work.
From our Skype chat:
When did you first feel...