Pat Barker's "Regeneration"

"It was the war my grandfather fought in..." -- Pat Barker


Regeneration on film (1997, and in USA, Behind the Lines, 1998):



Barker speaking about the writing process and the novel:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2012/aug/20/pat-barker-regeneration-book-edinburgh-podcast


Rob Nixon's interview with Pat Barker (published 2004):
http://www.english.wisc.edu/rdnixon/files/barker_interview.pdf


Book Reviews and critical articles on Regeneration and the Regeneration Trilogy

Marie-Noëlle Provost-Vallet, "Ghosts in Craiglockart..." Arts of War and Peace 1:1 (March 2013).
John Mullen, "Regeneration by Pat Barker," Guardian (August 24, 2012).
Christopher Benfy, "The Art of War," New York Times (January 27, 2008).
Alice Bowman, "Restoring the Balance," Kansas State University (2004).


Book Reviews of Toby's Room

Freya Johnston, "Toby's Room by Pat Barker," Telegraph (September 3, 2012).
Mark Sanderson, Toby's Room by Pat Barker: review," Guardian (30 August, 2012).


Web Pages devoted to Pat Barker

Booker Prize.
British Council.
Foyles.
Guardian.
New York Times.
Penguin.

Maxine Hong Kingston talks about Veterans

Maxine Hong Kingston talked about and read from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace at Cody's Books, San Francisco (October 17, 2006).  The following video is from FORA.tv

Putting trauma into music

First she published A Mother's Essays from Ground Zero (2001), then the essays became Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness which will have its debut performance at La MaMa theatre on September 12, 2008. See article in the New York Times (August 31, 2008).

Errol Morris on war photos as weapons

Filmmaker Errol Morris (his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara won an Academy Award for best documentary in 2004) keeps a blog in which he has just described how photography can be used as a weapon (NYT, August 11, 2008).

Since the Gulf War of 1991 when fireworks that were bombs were flashed on TV screens live, and the September 2001 attacks which were also filmed live, few can doubt that one of the aims of a group at war is to instill fear through photography and film.

Photos from Library of Congress on Flickr

Photos from the beginning of the 20th Century from collections at the Library of Congress have been posted on flicker. This one features "Jackies on Parade between 1910 and 1915"... it was added to Flickr on August 8, 2008, and there are no known copyright restrictions to use it (and the many others, about sports, NYC, etc).

It is possible to view the photos without having a flickr account.

Epic Astronomy & the Trojan War

Could Odysseus's return to Ithaca correspond to a total solar eclipse, and was Plutarch right in assessing that a passage from book 20 is a poetic description of the event? This thesis has been confirmed by scientists as the 1178 B.C. solar eclipse in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 2008). See "Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse" by John Noble Wilford in the New York Times (June 24, 2008).

Philip Roth's indignation, er, oops, Indignation

Roth's new book Indignation was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times (September 16, 2008) and by David Gates (September 19, 2008) the first chapter is available here.  In it, a Korean War soldier who died lives on.

Links pages for Roth:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/philip_roth/index.html

A series of interviews with Roth have been posted on You Tube.