March 2012

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley
March 22, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder recently gave a speech on national security matters to students at Northwestern University Law School. In his...
Fatma El-Mehdi
March 22, 2012
As the Arab Spring spread across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa, American philosopher Noam Chomsky argued that it...
Lina Mounzer
March 19, 2012
Obsessed, bewildered By the shipwreck Of the singular We have chosen the meaning Of being numerous. - George Oppen, 1908-1984 Prologue The...
March 16, 2012
Excerpted from a forthcoming book entitled Corpses on the Menu: Blood, Bullets and Bones Graduate of Clan War Academy Born in the eruption...
Dinaw Mengestu
March 12, 2012
In 2006, I flew with a group of journalists and United Nations officials to a remote village in Garamba National Park in eastern Congo,...
Matt McGregor
March 9, 2012
It is one of the ironies of contemporary publishing that Roberto Bolaño, author of 2666 and The Savage Detectives , is marketed as a...
Abdourahman Waberi
March 1, 2012
Translation by Sara Hanaburgh. This interview originally appeared in Slate Afrique, les blogs. Tall and elegant with a scarf around his...