Barbara Kingsolver: 'The idea that a book can be banned is terrifying'
Author Barbara Kingsolver, 68, on banning books, Congolese food and the genius of Doris Lessing
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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A profound homesickness, for Africa
When Anthony Akerman left apartheid SA in the seventies, there was no love lost between the writer and the country whose citizenship he would soon renounce. Over a decade later, a trip that took him to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Botswana sparked a homesickness that would leave him feeling foreve...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za
Doris Lessing and motherhood: Why the novelist left her first two kids.
I found a different Doris Lessing in her letters.
Source: slate.com
Destined to suffer - Zimbabwe Situation
Life oscillates between a desire to avoid pain and welcoming the sense of achievement that suffering often brings. We know, in our bones
Source: zimbabwesituation.com