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So that’s it then. Despite all the protests, the Pulitzer Prize board has decided that it will not revoke the award won by Walter Duranty of the New York Times for his reporting in Stalin’s Soviet Union. This was not a decision that it took lightly, mind you. The board’s members want everyone to understand that they only took their decision after “more than six months of study and deliberation.” Six months — that’s around one month, perhaps less, for each million who died in the holodomor, the man-made famine that Duranty tried so hard to deny. Here’s how Petro [...]
Times Lied, Millions Died
November 24, 2003
All Day Permanent Red by Christopher Logue CHRISTOPHER LOGUE has been a dealer in stolen property (briefly), a prisoner in a Crusader castle (16 months), a pornographer (the book Lust), and, probably no less discreditably, an actor, a poet, and a writer of screenplays. As if this weren’t enough, for over four decades this versatile Englishman has been engaged in a “reworking” of the Iliad. It is not, he is at pains to stress, a translation (he knows no Greek), but an episodic “account” of the ancient epic that has already taken far longer to produce than Troy took to [...]
The Bloodstained Rise
November 10, 2003
"All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten," by Christopher Logue.; published originally in National Review