more with his novel and orchestra of mind. he's now that's a great title he is not yet a household name but maybe he will be soon he's already been hailed as the heir to nigeria's a late literary doyin a big there's also berna dean every step she's on the list with her novel girl woman other about the overlapping lives of several black british women who couldn't be more different and then there's lucy elman's novel ducks newburyport a 1000 page long breathless rant by an american housewife while the title of the main character about how the us has gone insane oh. yeah that mold sounds interesting without punctuation as they all do of course is going to keep people busy really you've also been very busy as well because you know helping launch of a new exciting project called d.w. books tell us about books is a new you tube channel for everyone who likes books who likes to read even people who would like to read but maybe don't have the time to and you know what robin i'm not going to tell you anything else about it until you sh

that they're going to be reading this year and of course the most anticipated novel of the year the testaments by margaret atwood the queen of dystopian fiction you guess she is and this book is not even out yet and it's already on the list people have been waiting for this book for 34 years this is the sequel to her masterpiece the handmaid's tale but a lot of demand for it certainly it finally hit shelves in a week's time the jury of the booker prize are some of the very few people who've even gotten to see it and they have vowed silence however they will say that it is terrifying and that is exactly what that was readers of course once the 1st novel the handmaid's tale takes place in a totalitarian theocracy that is turned women into sex slaves and of course many people know this from this series the handmaid's tale which has of course increased demand for a sequel that series already went off book 2 seasons ago this new book is going to spin the story forward 15 years millions of readers are going to want to see how our it is going to spin the story forward is going to match up

that's how the novel ends. so, i interpreted differently. i think a better motive from his perspective, since he is a die hard evolutionist, so you can make the case for a darwin union materialist who commits suicide because life is purposeless. except for perpetuating the species. that's it. maybe to enjoy pleasure and avoid pain and that's it. dog eat dog kind of world. i can see somebody committing suicide for that but not because your successful as a writer. anyway, one of those book iowa read once and want to spread read again but your afraid to read because of the ending. so london preaches -- see where i am here -- it's futility. he's writing about futility of the bourgeois society. no way out. denigrates capitalism and self-imapproval. and ambition that we think part of the american dream and provide foods alternative so he commits tendencies -- self destructive tendencies. popular television series. london himself insist that martin eden was an attack on individualism and randan philosophy. being unaway of the needs of others of the

his first novel is called "the water dancer." story is a large part of this novel and hiring beginning to understand the story of african-americans who are resisting through escaping slavery is a big part of it. at this point, in the novel he is grappling literally with the written oral stories of escaped african-americans. he is beginning to understand his place in it. "in all of these words in each of these stories, i saw as much magic as anything i had seen in the goose. souls conducted as surely as i was from out of its depths. and i saw them coming up on railroads, barges, river runners, skiffs, and bribery coach. coming up on horseback of a hard snow and march elting ice. they were fitted in ladies dress and came up in gentry's close and came up in dental bandage and came up, in sling and came up come in rights came up. they bribed and stole horses from across the potomac and wind, storm, and darkness, came up as i had, driven by the .ember it's a mothers or wives they came up devoured by frost, came up with tales of hard d

back when it was published in 1985 margaret atwood's novel the handmaid's tale was critically acclaimed but considered by many to be a bit farfetched the main character offered is one of a cast of scarlet clad handmaids forced to be breeding machines in the patriarchal dystopia of gilliatt will fast forward to 2017 and the novel had a veritable 2nd coming as a t.v. series but also as a symbol of resistance to my sergeant's trompe and politics and that's one reason the long awaited sequel has finally arrived. and my swearing the iconic red cloaks and white head piece is familiar from the t.v. series and subsequent political protests appeared in the streets of london ahead of margaret and puts his book launch fine say the book is more relevant than ever in some ways it's becoming a worse place with them particularly in the night sky. and so this is very current and very relevant very necessary it wasn't just ahead me it was a forward but it's that 8 minutes to read an x. and then type feel where every time every word that she writes and she change any genuinely changed my life. thanks to

under the nazis one of the most celebrated novels written in post-war germany the german bus it finally makes it to the big screen. and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn't in germany at all so where is it. 1st off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories were coated in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture a sign of the format in germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz and political scientist lawrence murphy. the elected 415 hours of home movie reels showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime . the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click key words

iowa is his novel about writing about the east german surveillance state about a regime destroyed in part by its own mistrust of everyone and everything. definitely want to put on your reading list well that brings us to the end of the show but don't up for get about our website if you need to check out the culture so from all of us here in berlin take care and rock on until next time he doesn't and by. kick off. to make things right match. beats dusseldorf and wins back to spam. me it'll be all right matt hale to the horse potter to win its 1st game this season and berlin breathes a sigh of relief. as the ice melt. may emerge. fear. hope. greed. what kind of would prevail what will happen to the arctic after the ice melts. in 75 minutes on d w. where his home. with your family scattered across the globe. to listen to. returning to the roots which again might not be. the charge family from somalia live around the world that want to go on the needed urgent assistance a. family starts october anything on d w. this is d w news here are our latest stories world leaders have been holding

to be breeding machines in the patriarchal dystopia of gilliatt will fast forward to 2017 and the novel had a veritable 2nd coming as a t.v. series but also as a symbol of resistance to my sergeant's trompe and politics and that's one reason the long awaited sequel has finally arrived. and my swearing the iconic red cloaks and want to head peace is familiar from the t.v. series and subsequent political protests appeared in the streets of london ahead of margaret and towards night as book crunch fans say the book is more relevant than ever in some ways it's becoming a worse place with them particularly in the night sky. and so this is very current and very relevant very necessary it wasn't just that me it was a horror but instead of 8 minutes to read an x. and then type feel where every time every word that she writes and she genuinely genuinely changed my life. thanks to stressed as hand by evoked good fictional state of giving out handing out oranges and repeating well known catchphrases from the novel. through this guy the canadian only attended the launch and gave a midnight reading

yes a sight that definitely warms my heart well our weekly book tip is a novel that's been called the perfect book for paranoid times i've gotten him was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i approach the internal struggle struggles of a writer who is doubling as a spy for the dreaded east german secret police and that's of course the study to look at that somewhere there might be a record of you watching this video ok but what about those other sites you've been visiting. those sites today with the internet it's easy to get paranoid but surveillance is nothing new. in. the novel i was going his base is about mass as spinoffs well before the web it's about a country that these its own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all it's not science fiction it's about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. the narrator of the book is an east german poet and wished as he sends to berlin to spy on other authors he spends his days creeping around tunnels and cellars at night he attends the secret m

because we are working but i hope there will be 2 american novels that i love recently but the problem is we didn't sign the contracts yes yet so it's possible that the books that i want to translate are already sold to another publishing company so i'm asking because like to me and for many people who who know a little bit of french culture you are as french as they get as a character as a writer like you very french but for those who aren't familiar with the french literature and french culture i figured like you were choosing french writers in your book so that they would show the french way french point of view on life in general what makes in your own words. french literature french says the language. well. the pleasure the fact that we like we like a certain way of life. not too crazy about working all day long but more you know taking time to eat drink. beer i said. no sarcasm i remain yes yes yes a way of you know we exist. criticizing the power or kind of powers not accepting taboos exactly exactly fighting for freedom. so you know that in this world that is changing so fast m

the novel i was going to his base is about mass as spinoffs well before the web it's about a country that if you own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all it's not science fiction it's about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. the narrator of the book is an east german poet and wished as he sends to berlin to spy on other authors he spends his days creeping around tunnels and cellars at night he attends the secret meetings of east berlin underground literary scene but he soon realizes the aren't just interested in what he reports back about the others they're spying on him to. the goal of the service was to make everyone everyone without exception and to collaborators of this service and saying though this notion might sound so that all could be watched by all that was a security worthy of its name. the system voice guy had best describes as surreal and he should know the stasi spied on him for decades even though he fit the regime's ideal a working class author writing about workers' experiences but he wasn't cozy wi

is the most old subject of you don't have to the 1st novel ever found. maybe 35000 years ago is going to get the story of a guy who doesn't want to die so and then you have jesus who talked about the term of eternal life and then you have hundreds and thousands of books dorian gray frankenstein. you know many many books talking about these the only thing that i did in my little one is that i met many scientists all over the world that are really actually working on how to make us live longer would you want that for yourself if you had a choice between these healthy good looking happy. with a family find a better way than you getting old gradually and seeing your kids grow or stopping or living 5 by 500 years. 150-155-0015 extension 0 we almost can't do it now because john coleman was almost the stage even though there is debate about judd. but. well i answer in the book that if it's possible to save the lives of all the people i love and stay healthy and you know good looking then why not why not way refuse it but because we already have changed. in the

the wonderful series of novels of thon possible for it's hard o find a novel on the civil war like the famous battle of gettysburg. i shied away from novels about possible for a victory the history of it for 12 has been a greadone agreat job of getting y of right and describing what it is like for the ordinary soldier, the terror of the battlefield, the coverage that it took, for fear they obviously faced and the conditions they had to live with as well as the history of what happened tactically and strategically and one of the first that he has written was the king of gettysburg and it was really good and i'm looking forward to reading his other books as well. frank and al, for somebody who loves politics, and i do, this is a great book about the friendship and the rivalry between two great characters in the 20th century, al smith and franklin eleanor roosevelt. as often happens with close political friendships, the one eclipse the other end of the one didn't like it so much and never quite got over it. even though franklin roosevelt was a steadfast, he nominated him twice to be presi

i have to do what my heart is telling me to do with respect to this novel. >> what is the difference between the kind of black man he thinks he should be and the kind of black man you are? >> another great question. so the kind of dish don think nda knows and that's what the book is out. he has -- i think an interesting kind of -- he breaks away from his brother. he and his brother grow up and they're in the same context, the same kind of parenting, and his brother decided at point the is for all intents and purposes an african-american. that's who his, takes that pathway and says -- and tunda stays in a place of saying, well, i feel like an african-american but i also feel like there's something else and that's very dangerous and sort of unfavorable place to inhabit. i read dreams from my father by barack obama and the thing that ising is that barack obama takes a decision, i'm going to be an african-american. it's a very distinct decision and the early parts of the book about i'm going back and forth and figuring himself out of and then said i'm going to be an african-american. >>

and then to have that commentary with the immigrant novel. so the economist who is in new york and then like write this novel to get that a claim but and then to situate ourselves 2t century. >> and then to write the novel and get the money. >> and that was a great moment for me and we circulated a lot of traffic around the book you focus on the character and that's where the novel is in that we have something very nice for you. and then to have some conversation. and then it is capitulated for whatever reason. and even where that is a place. >> so what is the what they think it should be? >> another great question. but yes and he breaks away from his brother. and for all intents and purposes and that such an unstable place for that to happen. like waiting for my father like barack obama a few years back but what was interesting is that he has a decision i will not be african-american. >> and then he says i will be african-american. that is part of the story. but is that possible he is still a human being with a motion. command that decision.

back when it was published in 1905 margaret atwood's novel the handmaid's tale was critically acclaimed but considered by many to be a bit farfetched the main character offered is one of a cast of scarlet clad handmaids forced to be breeding machines in the patriarchal dystopia of gilliatt will fast forward to 2017 and the novel had a veritable 2nd coming as a t.v. series but also as a symbol.

but the idea of a novel does make the novel came from an earlier novella in which a character is a cardboardat? a road, if i could tell you, it's a book based on a cast of characters living in a building that is to be torn down in singapore. this happens a lot in singapore. this happens a lot in singapore. old buildings are torn down to make way for new ones. and cardboard lady is just one of many, many people, but her voice spoke to me, spoke louder than anyone else‘s, actually. so after i finish that book, she was still in my head. and i started to dream about her, so i couldn't stop thinking about her. tell me about cardboard lady, who was she? she was a woman who just lost her husband, as was in this book, and she just was lost her husband, as was in this book, and shejust was kind of hovering above the poverty line. she has to gather cardboard pieces and bring them to the recycling centre in order to make just bring them to the recycling centre in order to makejust a bit of money. that's the woman that i wrote about in if i good tell you. and i just wanted to write people living on the

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and to film i've never seen all the different chapters of the novel dance before brilliant. much travelled burning or for mark or martin is here with a very important work dissident thought to trace 20 leading dissidents who offered resistance against dictatorships of the right hand of the left they told me about what happened without any sense of self-righteousness and they were also with these stories are not only stories but rather ones that continue on today in conflicts in which democracy is again under attack before a strong messages and a lively stimulating atmosphere this is the international literature festival belin . one of the stars of the festival joins me now from and thank you for coming in most famous of course for the hot warming story of love that is called me by your name i haven't seen the movie but i believe you recommend people see the movie yes before they see the book strange coming from an author you know actually authors usually complain about the film that's made from their novels i think that people should see the film 1st of that they have a good

maybe those questions the relevance of the novel. is words are timeless yet relevant to an age in which our lives are becoming increasingly disempowered more digital. the final installation post a room submerged under sea water. a reminder that we are. whole bodies in a space that was there long before us and that will also monstrous. wow for downton abbey fans the wait is not another series but a movie so many of the cast made their name in the famous series it was difficult to get the mole back together but finally it's happened i leave you with a taste of the film and the crawley family are awaiting a very special visitor to. boy . the king and queen are coming to town to watch the. receptionist to. buy. a car 8 i'm getting back to look up to take down the. car to be there is going to be on the control. tiny joe help cussing be there in the morning my lady come to her. after. the w.c. talk show strong opinions clear position is from international perspective some young people worldwide are gathering it was expected to be the large

the big screen now a new film is debating here in germany that many readers already know well as a novel the german lesson by siegfried lets is a pivotal work of post-war german literature told from the point of view of a boy coming to grips with his own experiences under the nazis. it's a story about friendship and humanity breaking down yet. because one friend puts judy 1st and betrays the other. the innocent likes releasing. its $944.00 somewhere on the german north sea coast. works have been declared degenerate by the nazis just about as replacement for. the. hope that it. may come as a bit of that is going for but she wasn't. caught in the middle was a young boy who tries to please both of his father figure. out that. they have just put. i think that. the screenplay of this new film version of the german lesson was written by mother and son and. for me the landscape is one of the protectionists in this story because i actually wanted it to feel like the end of the world from like an apocalyptic moonscape so you could ask your so secluded here why do you have to keep on fighting a wa

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lance knew that nada was involved with the nazis but chose not to include that in his novel that's not just stick freedom the filmmakers agree with the choice. of what's that and shy girl was a conscious decision we didn't want to make a movie about a historical person shooters of course we will be asked questions now and this isn't and cannot. determine lesson as visually stunning and it's a thought provoking tale of collaborations and resistance at times story with a new relevance today. now most of us probably wouldn't want someone dressing us up as a hot dog and turning us into a race fortunately the contestants here are dioxins not people each year the winner dog race kicks off october fest in cincinnati ohio with hundreds of thousands of visitors it's the biggest art tobar fest in the united states around one in 5 people in the u.s. claim german heritage but. the big moment has arrived the 1st barrow parents being tapped. a total of $120000.00 leagues as a bill will be sold join the 3 day festival many of the beers of produced locally by breweries with german ancestry but the pub

back when it was published in 1985 margaret atwood's novel the handmaid's tale was critically acclaimed but considered by many to be a bit far fetched the main character offered is one of a cast of scarlet clad handmaids forced to be breeding machines in the patriarchal dystopia of gilliatt will fast forward to 2017 and the novel had a veritable 2nd coming as a t.v. series but also as a symbol of.

and more than 30 years after the critically acclaimed original the sequel to margaret atwood's novels the handmaid's tale has finally arrived and then. i'm going out on for a good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump as far as his national security adviser john bolton announcing this latest white house sacking on twitter the president said that he disagreed strongly with bolton on many issues bolton had advocated for military intervention and regime change in countries including iran syria and north korea is the 3rd national security adviser to go under the current administration trump says he'll name a replacement next week. john bolton and happier times seated at the president's side and influential proponent of his foreign policy represent his tenure as national security advisor came to an end on tuesday when trump took to twitter to announce his departure the president tweeted that he strongly disagreed with many of bolton suggestions prompting trump to us for his resignation bolton quickly disputed this version of events in turn tweeting that he had offered to resign o

we are here with the author of the new novel "the water dancer." ta-nehisi coates.ity that hiram has, which i don't think i' giving anything away when i say it's a supernatural ability. >> yes. >> stephen: and has any of your work writing for marvel influenced your-- or are there commonalities between your work on "black panther" and your work on this novel. people may not know that you have written for marvel for the "black panther" storyline. >> it's not the writing so much reading of comic books which i started at a very young age. but i think the thing is "a," the supernatural is present in slave narrative. it's present in frederick, w.p.. it was already there-- you're a d.and d.positive guy, right. >> stephen: yes. >> i'm a d. and d. guy, too. >> stephen: "dudgeons and dragons for those who don't know." >> my first game of "durchlons and dragons" was when i was seven. i had some of that in me already, so it was the thing i would be automatically already attracted to. >> stephen: thank you for the book. thank you for being here. don't tell me how it ends. >> i w

as in the novel the story is told by the boy seeking years later it's his memories of duty and truths stunning images almost no music. when secret lands created the painter he was inspired by him in order not a portrait himself as a victim of the regime but he was actually an anti semite who sympathized with the nazi party. lentz knew that nada was involved with the nazis but chose not to include that in his novel that's artistic freedom the filmmakers agree with the choice. of words that in shy girl was a conscious decision we didn't want to make a movie about a historical person shooters of course we will be asked questions now and this is an important debate we need to have the most power and we think it's great that the movie can add to that discussion our position is clear i can buy it we'll have to establish cannot. determine lesson is visually stunning and it's a thought provoking tale of collaborations and resistance at times story with a new relevance today. now most of us probably wouldn't want someone dressing us up as a hot dog and entering us into a race fortunately the c

there's nothing particularly novel about the exercise. it is very fact intensive and not much being released anyway in the if we were really able to release anyway it would be facts that are classified and not much benefit to the public. that's a case where we would not significant or novel. it was a new interpretation of the act and certainly anything that involved amicus, and how the law applies more broadly, we would consider that to be significant in novel and we provide to the committee and have an obligation under the freedom act to review for declassification. >> you know how many opinions have remade completely secret because of the definitions you are using? >> there is certainly opinions we would not consider significant in novel and that would not have been declassified. >> will there be a way of securing that for the information of the american people and members of congress? >> will there be a way of releasing those even though not significant on novel for the american people and members of congress? >> if they are not signif

how does the doj determine which opinions are novel or significant enough to be published? >> it's an evaluation. case by case evaluation. there's many -- the bulk matter of fisa are routine. you're applying it is law to the facts and determining if there's probable cause to target a particular individual. those are routine. there is a smaller number that -- a particular type of data can be collected or new issues, new expansions of an authority. we're evaluating that on a case by case basis and determining -- >> what i'm interested in knowing, how many opinions of that definition fit significant or novel but are not published? >> we have to provide all of those to the committee under the freedom act. all of those must be provided. and we also have to undertake, i believe, a declassification review to determine whether we can redact and release any of those significant or novel opinions. so, that's in the law since 2015 that we have to do that. >> and all of those declassification reviews are current? >> yeah, i mean, there may be some that are a work in progress. in other

in the novel, america is ruled by religious fundamentalists and women are reduced to sexual slavery. margaret atwood thints message of oppression has neveor felt mrelevant. margaret: young women of reproductive age are always in the minority in any society. they feel that they're on the verge of having desis made about them and about their entire future and fate and body and health that they have not been able to decide. reporter: after the election of donald trump, "the handmaid's onle" took on a new resonance. in america and b women have adopted the striking uniform worn by the characters in the novel to protest against laws restricting their rights. margaret: it is a brilliant you cannot kick them because they are not saying anything. theyre sitting very modestly. yocannot kick them out because they are dressed improperly. they are all covered up. but everyone looking at them knows what they mean. reporter: there is so much hype, fanfare associated -- margaret: yes, i apologize. reporter:el well, do you ny pressure at all? margaret: it is a bookit is not regime change, it is not r

>> so in terms of how we define what's significant and novel, there are plenty of opinions that will be applying ordinary legal opinions to the facts and deciding whether a particular individual will have probable cause and there's nothing particularly novel about that exercise and it's fact intensive and not much would be released anyway and if we were to release the opinion because it would be application of the facts and not open to the public. that is the type of case where we would not consider it significant or novel, but if it was instead some interpretation of the act or something involved in amicus, or something about how the law applies more broadly, we would consider that to be significant and novel and those are the opinions that we provide in this committee and we have an obligation under the freedom act for declassification. >> do you know how many opinions have remained completely secret because of the definitions you're using? >> there are certainly opinions that we would not consider significant and novel and those would not have been declassified. that's right. >> a

he talked about language with regard to the novel.he book that has been transcended by the girlfriend. can you say anything to me just translation or language come into this at all? you are talking about original manuscripts coming out and previously had only had versions and translations. >> a lot of energy went into the translation of things. one of the stories it tells the beginning is the translation of animal farm into polish. and they produced it in a white let -- lightweight papers talk funded by the cia. it hatch -- attach these additions to weather balloons and flew them over the iron curtain. he'd go up to milk the car -- milk the cow when there were 20 copies. you have these, there are many ways in which it plays an important part and it's hilarious to read the cia and literary assessment of dr. zhivago. they were like what is it? is a good? where the bits where they really go for lenon and it gives this accomplished assessment of the novel and why it couldn't he published in the soviet union but yeah. conversely it was som