28/11/2009

The best of this week's Strand including an interview with Günter Grass about 'Journeying from one Germany to Another', the South African Poet Laureate Keorapetse and young poet Lebogang Mashile, American country music star Toby Keith, The Strand in Chicago, rare recordings of Haitian music from the 1930's, Damien Hirst's new collection and an interview with Senegalese Daby Balde.