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Edward Said Interview

David BarsamianEdward Said InterviewBy David BarsamianUrbane and sophisticated, Edward W. Said is in many ways the quintessential New Yorker. His love for the city is palpable. "New York," he says,...

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Interview with Edward W. Said

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianUrbane and sophisticated, Edward W. Said is in many ways the quintessential New Yorker. His love for the city is palpable. "New York," he says, "plays an important role...

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Tariq Ali Interview

David BarsamianTariq Ali was born in 1943 in Lahore, in what was then British-controlled India. He was educated in Pakistan and then at Oxford. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan...

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Ahmed Rashid Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianAhmed Rashid is a journalist based in Lahore, Pakistan. He has been covering Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia for more than twenty years for The Far Eastern...

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Danny Glover Interview

David BarsamianFor most people, Danny Glover's name conjures up the Lethal Weapon series of movies. But when he was on C-SPAN recently, he was identified as "actor and human rights activist."Glover is...

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Kurt Vonnegut Interview

David BarsamianOn February 23, I walked up the steps to Kurt Vonnegut’s Midtown Manhattan brownstone and rang the bell. There was a smile and a mass of gray, curly hair to greet me. Then I heard, “Bite...

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Edwidge Danticat Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianOctober 2003 IssueEdwidge Danticat won the American Book Award for her 1998 novel, The Farming of Bones. Born in Haiti in 1969, she immigrated to Brooklyn in 1981 to...

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Noam Chomsky Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianLongtime MIT professor Noam Chomsky has spent much of his political life peeling away the layers of lies and exposing the hypocrisies of the powerful."The premises are...

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Bruce Cockburn Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianBruce Cockburn has won practically every music award that his native country, Canada, has to offer. The recipient of multiple Junos (the Canadian equivalent of the...

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Seymour Hersh Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianMay 2005 IssueSeymour "Sy" Hersh is a legendary investigative journalist. The Pulitzer Prize-winner catapulted to fame when as a freelancer he broke the story of the...

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Gore Vidal Interview

David BarsamianGore Vidal is a gold mine of quips and zingers. And his vast knowledge of literature and history—particularly American—makes for an impressive figure. His razor-sharp tongue lacerates...

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Interview with Arundhati Roy

David BarsamianBy David Barsamian, February 2007 IssueThere is a high-stakes drama playing out in India these days, and the novelist Arundhati Roy is one of its most visible actors.Multinational...

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An Interview with Chris Hedges

David BarsamianChris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.com and is a senior fellow...

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Arundhati Roy

David BarsamianMore than a decade after she burst onto the world literary scene with The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy is again working on a novel. She wouldn’t say much about it, other than that...

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Amartya Sen

David BarsamianAmartya Sen of India won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 for his pioneering work on development issues. He has focused attention on the social sources of famine, poverty, and...

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Vandana Shiva

David BarsamianVandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power. Born in India in 1952, she is one of the Third World’s most eloquent and passionate voices on the environment, women’s...

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An Interview with Jodie Evans

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianJodie Evans is a whirlwind of energy and enthusiasm. Ever on the move, ever planning new demonstrations, campaigns, and boycotts, she puts the active in activist....

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Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People

David BarsamianGore Vidal is a gold mine of quips and zingers. And his vast knowledge of literature and history—particularly American—makes for an impressive figure. His razor-sharp tongue lacerates...

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David Suzuki Interview

David BarsamianBy David BarsamianEveryone knows David Suzuki in Canada. He was born in 1936 in Vancouver, and was interned at a Japanese-Canadian relocation camp during the war years. He attended...

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From the Magazine: What's the Matter with the Democratic Party?

Submitted by David Barsamian on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 2:14pmDavid BarsamianThomas Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler magazine and the author of books including What’s the Matter with Kansas?, The...

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