Politicized English playwright David Hare has been called “Harold Pinter’s successor” and “Britain’s leading contemporary playwright.” Lately, he’s been specializing in plays about the Middle East (Stuff Happens, Via Dolorosa, A Map of the World), and he’ll be stopping by the Y next Monday, December 5 to talk about the art of playwriting.

In the meantime, Hare recently told the Guardian about his favorite books of 2005 (along with 42 other writers).