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Chris Newlove Horton
Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

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Prize Entry

April 2016

Chris Newlove Horton

Prize Entry

April 2016

He said, ‘Tell me about yourself.’ He said, ‘Tell me about you.’ He said, ‘Tell me everything. I’m interested.’ He said, ‘I want to...

fiction

April 2015

Heavy

Chris Newlove Horton

fiction

April 2015

It is a two lane road somewhere in North America. The car is pulled onto the shoulder with the...

Resistance needs to be recorded Resistance needs symbols: ideas that can travel faster than speech, last longer than memory Nowhere is this more understood, more fought over, than in Palestine   From the inception of the Zionist project, battle has raged over language, over landscape, over image The ‘land without a people’, the ‘merciless terrorist’, the ‘humane soldier’, the occupying army searching for a ‘partner in peace’  For over one hundred years Palestine and her neighbours suffered countless defeats, losing land and lives again and again, facing up to a vastly superior military power again and again – yet somehow remaining the aggressor in the mainstream Western media   And for Palestine, public opinion in the West is one of the keys to freedom   Times are changing The internet has widened the battlefield – citizen journalists, bloggers, photographers make up a limitless army of volunteers The Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement empowers everyone with effective moral choices   The Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, is an annual series of readings, talks and workshops featuring writers and artists from Palestine and around the world For the last four years it’s taken place in cities across the West Bank and historical Palestine This year will be our first in Gaza   PalFest is by its very nature transient – it moves every day, crossing borders and military checkpoints to get to the audiences that aren’t allowed to come to us But its aims are long term So we’ve always made sure everything is recorded, and that videos are cut and uploaded live throughout the festival To present to the world a vision of Palestinian life that is not directly related to the Israeli occupation To show how keen the audiences are, how good the art is, how smart and resilient the students are   We were lucky to have my good friend, the documentarian Murat Gökmen, with us last year Over the festival week he went through a nasty interrogation, a full body search and a healthy dose of tear gas but he’s produced a film that captures the feeling of being on the road with PalFest and puts forward useful observations about what we’re all

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton

Contributor

August 2014

Chris Newlove Horton is a writer living in London.

James Richards: Not Blacking Out...

Art

December 2011

Chris Newlove Horton

Art

December 2011

Artist James Richards appropriates audio-visual material gathered from a range of sources, which he then edits into elaborate, fragmented collages.   But whereas his...

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feature

January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

feature

January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

Interview

Issue No. 9

Interview with Rebecca Solnit

Tess Thackara

Interview

Issue No. 9

Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby, like many of her books and essays, is a tapestry of autobiographical narrative, environmental and...

Art

Issue No. 2

Sri Lankan Contemporary Art

Josephine Breese

Art

Issue No. 2

Sri Lanka has developed a thriving, vital contemporary art scene over the past twenty years. New artists are emerging...

 

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