The Arrestables

Jeremy Harding: Extinction Rebellion, 16 April 2020

... to the government’s 2050 target. For another, nothing it has to say, when it does, will be binding on the government. And citizens’ assemblies are notoriously slow to deliver their findings. The fourth session, scheduled for mid March, was cancelled because of the virus.Non-violent​ disruption is more controversial than the three demands, though ...

Bites from the Bearded Crocodile

G. Cabrera Infante, 4 June 1981

... New York. Marti is perhaps the greatest prose-writer in all of the Spanish 19th century. A spell-binding novel, Cecilia Valdes, was written by Cirilo Villaverde in his exile in the 1880s in New York. Besides many minor poets, the Cuban 19th century produced a great poet, the subtly symbolist Julian del Casal, after Ruben Dario the greatest modernista poet ...