Name: Conversation: Patrick McGrath & Martin Amis by PEN America
Duration: 1 h 2 min 47 s
Description: Discussed: doubt; Pascal’s approach to faith; a plausible refutation of religion; the nepotistic figure of Christ; hadith and the theological gamble of suicide bombings; time and its eternal return; end-time theology, and similarities between Ronald Reagan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Discussed: doubt; Pascal’s approach to faith; a plausible refutation of religion; the nepotistic figure of Christ; hadith and the theological gamble of suicide bombings; time and its eternal return; end-time theology, and similarities between Ronald Reagan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

Conversation: Patrick McGrath & Martin Amis

Amiri Baraka reads “Rhythm Travel” at the 2008 Beyond Margins Celebration.


Amiri Baraka Reads “Rhythm Travel”

The celebrated poet reads the seminal letter of political protest, in which she became the first and only person to date to refuse the highest honor bestowed upon an artist on behalf of the people. Background and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/16/adrienne-rich-national-medal-of-arts-letter/

Adrienne Rich declines the National Medal of Arts, 1997

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Conversation: Patrick McGrath & Martin Amis

PEN America

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