Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (left) and (right) Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
JONATHAN TAYLOR is fascinated by the philosophical problems that permeate the art of life-writing
GORDON PARSONS steps warily in between the lines of Britain’s most famous diarist
SIMON DUFF recommends a recording of Arvo Part that takes the listener on a pilgrimage through seemingly distant times and events of the Bible
“IT HAS got to a point where the general public are not particularly shocked or even bothered that the Pentagon would directly intervene on a script that was critical of the US or its military,” says Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder.
Trinder is alarmed by declassified government reports of direct interference in film-making by people in power but the real focus of his research and writing is the extent to which neoliberal thinking is reinforced by subtler forms of influence and constraint.
