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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.

Adam Hochschild

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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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