Tag: politics
Baader-Meinhof and the Novel, Narrative of the Nation/Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010
When Ulrike Meinhof scrambled out of the library window of the Institute for Social Research in West Berlin in May 1970, leaving behind a haze of gun- …
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Then Spree
Full disclosure, part one: I go to the same writing group as Nia Davies. Over the past few years, we’ve shared many a post-workshop pint and have come …
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Dispatch from Slovenia 2, Dogs and Toddlers
I was sitting in my flat on the top floor writing one of the most boring sentences in the world when I heard the shouting outside. The three-roomed wr …
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‘Alf and ‘Alf – The poetics of diversity
Welsh-American academic and writer David Lloyd spoke at the Association for Welsh Writing in English conference several years ago about the politics o …
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Shapes of Wales
As New Welsh Review was about to go to press, the National Eisteddfod was still in full swing. Sitting over proofs of this, my first issue, I couldn’t …
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Less a National Assembly, more a Glamorgan C.C. on stilts
In the eighteen months since the Welsh electorate delivered that wafer-thin majority of 6,721 in favour of establishing a Welsh Assembly in a poll of …
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The referendum on a Welsh Assembly
The people of Wales will be invited in a referendum in September to decide whether or not they want a Welsh national assembly. The proposal before the …
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The Tiger’s Wife
As I went to Waterstone’s to ask for a copy of the 2011 Orange Prize Winner, the shop assistant rather anxiously informed me that they only had three …
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Book of the Year Winner Proves Illusion will Nourish, even if it won’t feed us
‘Don Quixote,’ John Harrison says in his Book of the Year winner Cloud Road, A Journey Through the Inca Heartland, ‘is usually portrayed as an old man …
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