Excerpt from The Garlic Ballads Chapter 16 Arrest me if that’s what you want … Someone read the Criminal Code aloud for me – Blind lawbreakers get lenient treatment – I won’t shut my mouth just because you put me in jail … – from a ballad by Zhang Kou sung after…

English Excerpt from The Search Warrant Eight years ago, in an old copy of Paris Soir dated 31 December 1941, a heading on page three caught my eye: “From Day to Day”.* Below this, I read: PARIS Missing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15, height 1.55m, oval-shaped face, grey-brown eyes, grey…

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen; Distinguished Guests, Friends The other day, suddenly, out of the blue, while we were talking about something completely different, my partner Dorothy burst out as follows: “On the other hand,” she said, “on the other hand, how proud your mother would have been! What…

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Interview transcript Welcome to Stockholm and to the Nobel interview Professor Charles Townes. Charles H. Townes: Thank you. I would like to ask you about lasers that you are the inventor of and also that you got your Nobel Prize in, masers and lasers, you got your Nobel Prize for, I would…

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Interview transcript [Merci Olsson] Hello, is this President Barroso? [President Barroso] Yes, it is me. [MO] My name is Merci Olsson. I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, the official web site for the Nobel Prize. Congratulations ([PB] Thank you) to the European Union for being awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. [PB] Yes. [MO]…

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Interview transcript [Allegra Grevelius] Hello, is that Alvin Roth? [Alvin Roth] It is. [AG] My name is Allegra Grevelius and I’m calling from Nobelprize.org, the Nobel Prize website. [AR] Uh, huh. [AG] I’m sorry to bother you so early in the morning. [AR] We are already…