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It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri Now?

The acclaimed Nigerian British writer is resonating with American readers in a moment of national crisis. “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices,” he said.

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American Legion post unveils 100-foot mural commemorating veterans' service

Ride along with LaPorte Police Specialist Justin Dyer as he patrols the streets of LaPorte.
âYou gotta put in the hours,â John said, adding, âI was up all night till 11.â
John, known as the Freedom Artist for his patriotic and military works, painted a 100-foot-long presentation of military logos, an American flag and eagle, and an image of this countryâs Middle East fighting.
âItâs wonderful,â said Post 261 Commander Gary Seng. âI canât express what he has done to enhance the post the way he has.â
A helicopter pilot and truck driver in Vietnam from 1970 to '72, Seng said the mural âbrings back memories. Some good memories, some bad memories. I try not to think of the bad memories.â

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Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

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Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, which were published in
The New Yorker in June of 2020. Okri is the author of two dozen books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novels “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which was published in 2019.
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2020 Year in Review by Graham Sleight

Graham Sleight (2015) by Francesca Myman
Publishing lead-times being what they are, the extraordinary events of 2020 largely weren’t reflected in the books that came out in the year – or at least, not intentionally. I managed to read a good deal of thought-provoking SF and fantasy this year, but some books seemed even more relevant than expected because of the pandemic-shuttered world they emerged into. How posterity will view them – let alone how it’ll view the books that’ll doubtless follow about COVID itself – is a question for another day.
Samit Basu’s
Chosen Spirits (Simon & Schuster India) offered a picture of India that was, its author insisted, both a dystopia and less bad than some alternatives. It certainly dug into the country’s culture and how it might change under the pressures bearing down on it.

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Art Industry News: Sotheby's Turns Its Staff Into Jewelry Mannequins as In-Sale Advertising Opens New Revenue Stream + Other Stories

Art Industry News: Sotheby’s Turns Its Staff Into Jewelry Mannequins as In-Sale Advertising Opens New Revenue Stream + Other Stories
Plus, the Louvre launches its own online store and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum names a new director after an abrupt resignation.
A Selection of Elizabeth Taylor's Bulgari Jewels. Courtesy of Bulgari 2018.
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, February 2.
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Ben Okri on Perception and Illusion

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Your story in this week’s issue, “A Wrinkle in the Realm,” revolves around a man who notices that women suddenly seem afraid of him and cross the street to avoid him. You don’t mention the man’s race, but the experience he describes is familiar to many Black men in the U.S. and, presumably, in Britain and elsewhere, too. Do you think of the story as one about racial identity or fear?
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The fascinating thing was to write a story about something without naming it, in such a way that the story speaks about it more strongly than if it had been named. I began with an experience that, over time, had become ground into the fabric of reality that is absorbed as a part of living. This is when it becomes most insidious. It eats into the psychic cavities. After a long time, I sought a way to write about it at a slight remove, so that the distortion that it wreaks on the soul would become more evident through the absurdity of the strategy my character develops for dealing with it. The story is also about perception—how we perceive the way we are perceived.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190404:06:47:00

up and speak his mind. joins me now thank you very much thank you for correcting me about the pronunciation of your neck it's a pleasure to be and i'm glad you disobey joe father and read the books i think everybody is you said the families wrote the book a prize winning book you wrote it to give yourself reasons to live things evolves it changed a great deal for you since then so what inspired the new book the freedom artist i think i wrote the freedom artist. asked myself some of the central questions that i feel faces us as human beings. and faces us in our time. how free are we. what are we prisoners of what ideas what cultural assumptions what political ideology is what limited visions of the world we prisoners of.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190404:06:48:00

and indeed the book which i have here as the freedom artist it has a title almost or a sometimes above it who is the prisoner can you reveal that or can anybody reveal that you know i think if you have to read the book and you have to do a lot of contemplation you have to ask yourself awkward questions it's a it's a question directed at the world or not the individual is a piece of graffiti it's an act of rudeness or great questions are a bit rude and it also in the book. this is the sleep police i also came across the phrases to be like everyone else was the highest distinction a citizen could hope for and a few pages later it had therefore been decided that everyone would be spied on this for me has shades of out of huxley's great book brave new world was that intentional and inspiration that side here the freedom artist is very much in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190403:21:47:00

very much thank you for correcting me about the pronunciation of your neck see it's a pleasure to be and i'm glad you disobey joe father and read the books i think everybody is. you said the famished wrote the book a prize winning book you wrote it to give yourselves reasons to live things evolve sea change a great deal for you since then so what inspired the new book the freedom artist i think i wrote the freedom artist. myself some of the central questions that i feel faces us as human beings. and faces us in our time. how free are we. what are we prisoners of what ideas or cultural assumptions what political ideology is what limited visions of the world we prisoners of and indeed the book which i have here as the freedom artist it has

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190403:21:48:00

a title almost or sometimes above it who is the prisoner can you reveal that or can anybody reveal that you know i think if you have to read the book and you have to do a lot of contemplation you have to ask yourself questions it's a it's a question directed at the world or not the individual is a piece of graffiti it's an act of rudeness or great questions are a bit rude. and then also in the book. this is the sleep police i also came across the phrases to be like everyone else was the highest distinction a citizen could hope for in a few pages later it had therefore been decided that everyone would be spied on this for me has shades of elders huxley's great book brave new world was that intentional and inspiration that side yes the freedom artist is very much in our very great tradition. outspoken books about the human condition books that ask this or could questions books like brave new world ninety

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