PINTER — GENERAL:
- Harold Pinter: the official site.
- Harold Pinter timeline.
- Contemporary Writers: lengthy critical perspective on Pinter.
- The Harold Pinter Society: publisher of The Pinter Review.
- BBC Four: Harold Pinter page (includes Pinter quiz).
- Internet Broadway Database: Pinter credits.
- Internet Movie Database: Pinter credits.
- The Harold Pinter Collection: University of Texas at Austin.
PINTER — EXCERPTS:
- “Girls”: “‘Girls like to be spanked.’ But do they?” (Granta)
- Pinter on Samuel Beckett: “His work is beautiful.”
- Excerpt from The Dumb Waiter.
- Excerpt from Old Times.
PINTER PERSPECTIVES:
- Review of “Betrayal.”
- Review of “The Caretaker.”
- Curtain Up: an overview of Pinter’s career.
- Ian Mackean: “Winners and losers in the plays of Harold Pinter.”
PINTER — INTERVIEWS:
- The Paris Review: Fall 1966.
- The Independent: Pinter on creating a radio play for his 75th birthday and fighting cancer.
- The New Statesman: November 8, 1999.
- The Guardian: August 3, 2001 (mostly political).
- BBC: Harold Pinter vs. Arnold Wesker.
PINTER — POLITICS:
- “The War Against Reason” — Pinter arguing against the war in Iraq (Red Pepper, December 2002).
- “Carribean Cold War”< ?a> — a Pinter pro-Cuba piece (Red Pepper, May 1996).
- “The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal.” (The Daily Telegraph, November 12, 2002).
- Pinter on NATO (BBC, June 1, 1999).
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