Tag: Revisits
A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front
Armies, like writers, prey on orphans and misfits. Scenes of military recruitment have been a literary staple at least since Bulgarian soldiers kidnapped Voltaire’s Candide, but few are more bleakly memorable than the one at the end of “Paradise” (1994), by the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. It’s around the time of the First World War. Yusuf, a runaway servant in what’s now Tanzania, wanders into a camp abandoned by askari, or local troops, who have occupied his coastal town in
Boston Revisits ‘Common Ground’ und Busing, Onstage
BOSTON – Es ist fast ein halbes Jahrhundert her, seit ein Bundesrichter angeordnet hat, dass die städtischen Schulen hier durch Busse aufgehoben werden, und 37 Jahre, seit der Schriftsteller J. Anthony Lukas die daraus resultierenden Turbulenzen in seinem Pulitzer-prämierten Wälzer „Common Ground“ auslotete, der in die USA kam Kanon bahnbrechender Bostoner Texte.
Jetzt inszeniert ein führendes gemeinnütziges Theater hier, das argumentiert, dass der Schatten des Busverkehrs und die Darstellungen in „Common Ground“ weiterhin den Ruf dieser Stadt und ihre Rassenbeziehungen
‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld
TOKYO — These days there are few visible signs of the yakuza in Kabukicho, the storied entertainment and red-light district in the heart of this churning metropolis of more than 37 million people — the biggest city in the world. Aggressive laws have weakened Japan’s organized crime syndicates and chased their aging, declining memberships into the shadows.
But not so long ago, the yakuza controlled this area, among others, and it wasn’t shy about it.
“They were in your face,”