David Macey, author, has written in Granta about the ‘slow time of the library” as he wrote the biography of Frantz Fanon.
Thinking about Zacarias Moussaoui now sentenced to life in prison.
Moussaoui grew up in France but his family was from Morroco.
Maybe it will take the slow time of the library for us to understand why the senselessness of violence so often overcomes efforts to make peace.