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19 days ago

‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions

The early 196…

57 days ago

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets – podcast

Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treason

By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian. Read by Lanna Joffr…

74 days ago

‘What a project, what a challenge!’: Africa’s leading architect gives Thomas Sankara a proper place of rest

Pritzker prize-winner Francis Kéré has designed a memorial to honour ‘Africa’s Che Guevara’, Burkina Faso’s visionary president who was assassinated in 1987

Francis Kéré was the first African architec…

76 days ago

Film-maker Walter Salles: ‘Cinema, as opposed to noise, used to be at the heart of the Oscars’

The Brazilian director on his Oscar-nominated new film, I’m Still Here, the importance of remembering shared history, and Brazil’s double pandemic

Walter Salles, 68, is Brazil’s most internationally c…

79 days ago

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treason

In early 1964, Jean Ziegler, a young Swiss polit…

3 months ago

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