Talking With Elliot Weinberger

Speaking of translation (see recent item), New Directions has an interview with poet/essayist/translator Elliot Weinberger (What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles). Of the many gems and nuggets to be found there is this:

New York Times

It should not go unmentioned that What Happened Here contains a compelling indictment of the Bush regime’s Iraq blunder, “What I Heard about Iraq,” that playwright Simon Levy adapted as “What I Heard about Iraq: A Cry for Six Voices.”