On the afternoon of August 19th, 2003, in her Boston home, Samantha Power was hard at work on what she hoped would be her second book. Woman for Dark Times was the working title; it was set to be a political biography of the philosopher Hannah Arendt.
The plan was to forage in Arendt’s life and [...]
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Billy Collins, Poet
Posted in Interviews, Poets, tagged American Poetry, Billy Collins on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AT 11 O’CLOCK ON a Saturday morning, Billy Collins, former US poet laureate and one of the best-selling poets in the world, walks into the library in the US Ambassador’s residence in the Phoenix Park and announces that he has spent the last hour being chased by an ape across a river. Or maybe it [...]
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Actor
Posted in Actors, Cinema, Film, Interviews, New Yorkers, tagged Maggie Gyllenhaal on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First Published: The Irish Times, July 21, 2007
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL SMILES a smile of polite, determined detachment. I’ve just asked her how she is. And I’m not entirely sure she has actually answered me. Possibly, all she’s offering is this look almost of amusement; why, it seems to say, would I bother to ask her such [...]
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