ART & Thoughts
“ Art is a form of consciousness.” Susan Sontag
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Bob Dylan: “I’m a poet, and I know it”
Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Just over 50 years ago, following the release of his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home, the Guardian published Chimes of freedom flashing – a look at the poetry of Bob … Continue reading
Nadine Gordimer: City Lovers and other stories
Tessa Hadley reads “City Lovers,” a story by the South African writer and 1991 Nobel Prize, winner Nadine Gordimer. The story, which was published in The New Yorker in 1975, focusses on a love affair between a white man and a “colored” woman in Apartheid South Africa. It’s deeply political in its details—the man is … Continue reading
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