David Lan play Flight, about a Jewish family in Southern Africa, transfers this summer in its RSC production from Stratford to the Pit. His book Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe was discussed in the London Review by David Caute (21 November 1985).
The High Court of Justice in London, 1967. Dr Miklos Yaron, a Hungarian gynaecologist, is suing his former assistant Ruth Kaplan for libel. Kaplan has published a pamphlet accusing Yaron of collaboration with Nazi leaders in 1944. As a member of the Central Jewish Council set up by the Nazis, Yaron had known that millions of Jews had already died in extermination camps. Nonetheless he agreed to assist Eichmann with his plan to destroy the Jews of Hungary.
Terence Ranger’s major new exploration of Zimbabwean peasant politics spans the ninety years from the early colonial period to the 1980s. While drawing heavily on his own intensive research...
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