David Lan

David Lan play Flight, about a Jewish family in Southern Africa, transfers this summer in its RSC production from Stratford to the Pit. His book Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe was discussed in the London Review by David Caute (21 November 1985).

Letter

Zionism

2 April 1987

David Lan writes: If Bryan Cheyette can deal with both Perdition and Shoah in one letter I don’t see why I can’t do the same in one article. Readers who refer to Allen’s and Lanzmann’s respective interviews will find that they both regard the ‘myth of the Holocaust’ as an obstacle to the transmission of the truth because, in Lanzmann’s phrase, ‘it is the property of myth … to be infinitely...

The Road to Independence

David Caute, 21 November 1985

Terence Ranger’s major new exploration of Zimbabwean peasant politics spans the ninety years from the early colonial period to the 1980s. While drawing heavily on his own intensive research...

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