In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers’ table. The Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is a confusing a…| This Reading Life
Reading George Orwell When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fa…| This Reading Life