Michael Billington

Michael Billington

Michael Billington

 

Pinter assaults US foreign policy

Michael Billington

There was something oddly Beckettian about Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture which now is blazing its way across the world's media. It was Beckettian in that Pinter sat in a wheelchair, with a rug over his knees and framed by an image of his younger self, delivering his sombre message: memories of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame came to mind.

When Pinter let fly

Michael Billington

There was nothing ailing about Harold Pinter's passionate and astonishing Nobel lecture, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail, reports Michael Billington.