April 2013

Majid Maqbool
In the Shadow of Bunkers  
April 29, 2013
On a cold December afternoon in Srinagar a group of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were busy picking up bricks and throwing...
JL Schatz
A War on Freedom and Food
April 24, 2013
There’s a war going on. It’s a war against consumer knowledge, against immigrants, a war against the impoverished and a war against animals...
Troy Blacklaws
Never Mermaids
April 18, 2013
This excerpt has been taken from Troy Blacklaws' novel Cruel Crazy Beautiful World. It chronicles the parallel lives of two African men,...
Emmanuel Dongala
Chinua Achebe: The man behind the writer
April 17, 2013
OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO I was still hoping to eventually meet Mr. Achebe at some point by constantly bothering you to introduce me to him so I...
Andrew Ryder
Derrida and the Crisis of French Zionism
April 15, 2013
The life’s work of Jacques Derrida, often referred to by the name “deconstruction,” advanced a new way of reading. Emphasizing the deferral...
Matt McGregor
Commodified Rebellion
April 11, 2013
Your first thought on picking up Necropolis , the latest from Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa, is that it has a rather awesome title...
Michael Goldfarb
A Tenuous Refuge in Lebanon
April 6, 2013
Editor's note : Earlier this year, Michael Goldfarb, media relations manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA...
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Ts'eliso Monaheng
Baloji in Conversation
April 6, 2013
Over a Skype connection from Cape Town to Belgium, I ring up the rapper Baloji. Our chat has been delayed multiple times, which is...
Genet Lakew
(Extra)Ordinary Girls
April 3, 2013
In a span of 100 minutes, Girl Rising , the new film by Academy Award nominee Richard Robbins, conveys the stories of nine diverse,...