First Published: The Irish Times, Saturday, April 25, 2009
IT’S SPRINGTIME in Brooklyn, in the old Italian neighbourhood of Cobble Hill. But suddenly it doesn’t feel like Brooklyn anymore; suddenly the air seems that of a small Irish town, of a small Irish sittingroom, where a small Irish boy sits at a card table with his [...]
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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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