The new George Steiner book
George Steiner, with Laure Adler, A Long Saturday: Conversations. Steiner is one of the most knowledgeable people, even into his 90s. From these conversations I learned that he started working for The Economist as an economics reporter after WWII, computers drive us to a notion of “minimal language,” “God is Kafka’s uncle,” he recommends North, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Ben-Gurion once told him “Only one thing matters: send me your children.” By the way, “Malraux predicted that the religious wars of the twenty-first century would be the greatest in history.”
Definitely recommended.