October 2014

Shimrit Lee
The Evils of Banality
October 24, 2014
Max Beckmann’s “Departure” (1932-1935), recently on display at the Neue Galerie exhibit “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi...
Meena Alexander
Poem with Blue Agapanthus
October 17, 2014
Editor's Introduction The 17th Century Kabbalist, Nathan of Gaza, speculated that before the world came into being, there were, in the...
Ayesha Pervez
On the Fringes of India’s Political and Moral Consciousness
October 15, 2014
Tales of repression and subjugation are ubiquitous in the military-ruled northernmost borderland of India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir...
Carl Drott
"Extremists" and "Moderates" in Kobani
October 13, 2014
For nearly a month, fighters from the mainly Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have kept Islamic State (IS) forces at bay outside...
Kurds in Kobani
Sumana Roy
Indigo: Becoming Blue, Blue Mutiny, Blue Blood
October 6, 2014
Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...
Frankétienne
Ready to Burst (an excerpt)
October 2, 2014
Preface Frankétienne (1936-) is considered one of the most important figures in twentieth and twenty-first century Haitian literature and...