Send in the clowns

Clowns Without Borders Ireland continues their mission with a tour to refugee camps in Lebanon to ensure there is ‘no child without a smile’ PLAY AND LAUGHTER are normal occupations of young children. It’s how they learn about the world and how to engage...

Euro Vision

At the Pulse of Europe rally on Munich’s Max-Joseph-Platz, 19 March. Photograph: Christine Madden MORE than a thousand people attended a Pulse of Europe rally in Munich on Sunday, 19 March,  joining thousands across Germany and other locations in Europe –...

Rebels with a cause

Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live, or a Life of Montaigne, and At the Existentialist Cafe, tells her Munich audience why existentialism is the rock-and-roll side of philosophy AT THE RISK of looking like the PR for Munich’s Literaturhaus, here’s another report on...

‘The Cassandras in the world are never asleep’

Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka – playwright, poet, ‘anatomist of the workings of power’ – shows a Munich audience he is still well able to pounce THE BUZZ in the lecture hall in the Literaturhaus München becomes more subdued as the minutes tick by –...

‘Doomed to be a writer’

David Grossman appears in the first of a series of talks – The Cassandra Phenomenon – during the Munich Security Conference ‘WE CAN ALL IDENTIFY with the horrible experience of Cassandra,” says Israeli writer David Grossman at Munich’s Literaturhaus on 16...