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Mishima's Sword (2006)

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Mishima

On 25th November 1970, the Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, accompanied by a private army of extreme right wing students dressed in Ruritanian uniforms he’d commissioned from a well-known fashion designer, entered the Eastern Army Group Headquarters in Tokyo and took a senior general hostage.

Posted on February 25th, 2010

Liberalism, Censorship and the Chilling Effect

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Liddle

Index on Censorship asked me to blog about the campaign against Rod Liddle's possible appointment to the editorship of the Independent. A comment thread is already underway on the the Index Site:

Posted on January 22nd, 2010

Airline Security: Profiling and paranoia (2010)

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fly the friendly skies

 I flew LHR-JFK just after the Christmas day bomb attempt.  Paranoia and security lines. I was reminded of how bad things were just after 9/11 and wrote an anecdotal piece for The Guardian.  

Posted on January 6th, 2010

The Culture House (2009)

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artist

 I have a short story in this week's New Statesman. It's called The Culture House

Posted on December 30th, 2009

Mute Post-Crunch Fiction Special (2009)

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the future

Mute magazine has published a special edition featuring some fictional futurism.

Posted on December 23rd, 2009

Happy New Decade: Are you (still) Afraid? (2004, 2009)

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Notting Hill Gate

As we head towards the new year and every media outlet on the planet compiles lists of definitive this and that, I found this 2004 piece on my hard drive, which seems to do a reasonable decade-summarising job. It was a column for Arena magazine. I'm not sure they printed it, though I remember they took my picture on the concourse at Waterloo station.

Posted on December 14th, 2009

Hari Kunzru guest reading at Birdsong #10

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Birdsong flyer

 BIRDSONG #10 — zine release/reading/art/music show with everyone’s favorite pie-loving, Williamsburg-based interdisciplinary DIY arts collective THE BIRDSONG COLLECTIVE

Friday, December 11th at 8 PM

with guest reader, novelist/journalist HARI KUNZRU

Posted on December 10th, 2009

The Millions: A Year in Reading

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The Millions blog is doing its annual 'year in reading' series, not restricted to books published in 2009.  Participants so far include Jonathan Lethem, Philip Lopate and me...

 

Posted on December 4th, 2009

The Crime and Punishment of Yang Yunbiao (2008)

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 In 2008, in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, I participated in a PEN event intended to highlight human rights abuses in China. This is a video of a text I read at that event.

Posted on November 4th, 2009

Launching Tarun Tejpal's novel in Delhi (2009)

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 A short news item  about Tarun Tejpal's excellent novel The Story of My Assassins. I interviewed him on stage in Delhi at the launch.

Posted on November 4th, 2009
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