Prison narrative: Systematic torture 2

2019-06-13T23:27:27+00:00August 25th, 2018|

Behrouz Boochani's memoir of his arrival at Christmas Island as an asylum seeker, and subsequent indefinite incarceration on Manus Island, is in itself a miracle of survival and of testimony. To tell the unthinkable in impossible circumstances is an extraordinary act of courage and truth-telling. This is [...]

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Writing Madness

2019-06-14T04:03:11+00:00February 18th, 2013|

Every now and then a memoir (or a novel) lands on my desk that shakes me out of my familiar mental world, and makes me realise how safe and comfortable my thinking is much of the time. I don't often think about this, except when something happens, [...]

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