1/2 What a thoroughly embarrassing interview. How do you converse w peerless Arundhati Roy in September 2025 & not utter a peep abt her October 2024 cri de cœur PEN Pinter Prize award speech? NYT continues to disgrace itself on these issues. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...
2/2 But there’s more: this is just plumb bad interviewing. Here’s Roy’s PEN speech. Note the gripping deconstruction of the very concept of “unflinching.” How in God’s name does Garcia-Navarro then describe Roy as “unflinching?” smh Paint-by-numbers claptrap—even title. mronline.org/2024/10/19/a...