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Harold Pinter’s Nobel Speech
Ed.’s note: The following speech was delivered by Harold Pinter in December of 2005, upon his acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature. We have left the British grammatical style intact.
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A Note on Genet’s film, Un Chant D’Amour and Harold Pinter by Jonas Mekas
The year was 1964, early January. From Knokke-Le-Zoute Experimental Film Festival, where Barbara Rubin and I created a scandal when they forbade us to show Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures, we proceeded to Paris, where we spent some time with Roman Polanski as our driver—we had a car, a tiny car but a car. Eventually he gave up when Barbara decided to go swimming in the Seine. We could not persuade her not to do that. So we left her by the Seine and went to La Coupole.
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Inside Lebanon: A Cold Civil War by Moustafa Bayoumi
The Christmas season was drab and lifeless this year in Beirut. Bombings continue to plague the city, fifteen in the last fifteen months, with the December 12th assassination of the anti-Syrian journalist and politician Gebran Tueni the most recent. The violence has spooked the population into caution and political pessimism. Downtown Beirut, beautifully reconstructed and lit like a romantic movie set, was largely abandoned.
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Whither Jeff Wilson? Retort to Paul Mattick, and a Reply
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Dark Enough To See the Stars by Nora Connor
In early 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement had reached a crossroads. Ten years of struggle had achieved lasting victories from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the Civil Rights Act. But full citizenship for black Americans was far from assured, as evictions, beatings, lynchings, and bombings continued unabated in response to voter registration efforts in the South. With At Canaan’s Edge, the third and final volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch gives an almost moment-by-moment account of King’s last frantic years. The effect is one of perilous, gathering speed: events at home and abroad spin out of control, with King’s assassination on the far horizon, but looming closer all the time.
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The State of King by Emily Weinstein
In elementary school, there are the dittoes. They appear every January 15—purple, mimeographed sheets of paper with a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. superimposed on a rippling American flag, a quote from “I Have a Dream,” and a few questions and blanks to fill in from the word bank on the side: “Martin Luther King, Jr. worked for ___________ for people of all races.”
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The State of Things by Theodore Hamm
Ed.’s note: The following talk was given at “Writers of the American Resistance,” an event held on January 19th at Mo Pitkin’s on Avenue A. The event’s organizer, Jason Flores-Williams, asked Hamm to address the “state of things.”
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The Rail congratulates the following winners of 2005
Ippie Awards from the Independent Press
Association-N.Y.:
1st Place, Best Overall Design: Amelia Hennighausen
1st Place, Best Story About Immigrant Issues
Gabriel Thompson, "When Even the Minimum Wage is a
Distant Dream"
(December 2004/January 2005)
2nd Place, Best Editorial/Commentary
Theodore Hamm, "Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy"
(March 2005)
3rd Place, Best Investigative/In-Depth News Story
Brian J. Carreira, "No Room at the Inn: Ratner
Continues to ’Game’ Officials and the Public" (June
2005)
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