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9 december 2010

WikiLeaks: Stop the crackdown

Avaaz.org

The chilling intimidation campaign against WikiLeaks is an attack on freedom of the press and democracy. Let’s get to 1 million voices and take out full page ads in US newspapers this week!

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23 augustus 2010

The Horse’s Mouth

Prediker

Sheikh Khalid Yassin, very popular among young Muslims, favors such punishments as beheading and mutilation. Not just to put and end to gang violence, drug dealing and drug abuse, but also to stop such heinous crimes as gambling, alcohol consumption and having sex outside of marriage.

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28 april 2010

Hilary Mantel Interview: Romance

Peter Breedveld

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“You’re right, in my books people try to solve their problems in a variety of drastic and decisive ways, like murder.”

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16 april 2010

Hilary Mantel Interview: Dead Babies

Peter Breedveld

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“That’s what I make a point of in my autobiography, this notion of a ghost. Not just in the sense of spirits of dead people, but also the choices you didn’t make, and the paths you didn’t go down, and the ghost of your own potential self in a way.”

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5 april 2010

Hilary Mantel Interview: Imaginary Monkey

Peter Breedveld

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“Occasionally, you hope, there’s something in your novel that stays with people, that will change reality for them. You want to free people’s imaginations.”

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19 maart 2010

Interview with Hilary Mantel: Thorough Unbeliever

Peter Breedveld

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I am not in any sense on an antireligious crusade. I don’t have very much personal faith, but on the other hand I can understand that one lives as if one believes.

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13 maart 2010

Hilary Mantel Interview: Guardian Angel

Peter Breedveld

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Vorig jaar kreeg mijn favoriete levende schrijver Hilary Mantel de Booker Prize voor haar historische roman Wolf Hall. Vlak daarvoor was het me eindelijk gelukt een interview, dat ik anderhalf jaar eerder met haar had gehad, aan Vrij Nederland te slijten. Hieronder het eerste deel van de transcriptie daarvan, over de paranormale dimensie van het schrijven.

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8 september 2009

‘I wouldn’t want to sound insane’

Peter Breedveld

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Writer Hilary Mantel is virtually unknown in The Netherlands, but in the UK she is considered one of the most important contemporary writers. Her new novel Wolf Hall has now been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. About time she was properly introduced.

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20 maart 2009

Bifi

David Swatling

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Moroccan-Dutch journalist Hassnae Bouazza is no stranger to controversy. Her work attracts attention for her frank approach to taboo subjects such as pornography in the Arab world.

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28 januari 2006

‘I am not normal on the inside’

Peter Breedveld

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Recently Charles Burns’ deeply disturbing but also utterly touching and darkly poetic graphic novel Black Hole hit the shelves of the finer bookstores near you. Never, in any novel, poem or song, have I seen teenage angst captured so well as in Black Hole. The book, in my humble opinion, deserves a place among the great classics of American Literature. I spoke to Burns a while ago, when he was still working on the last pages of his masterpiece.

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