January 2016

Chika Unigwe
January 28, 2016
Their life in Belgium already seemed like something that happened to someone else. Sometimes, Agu and Prosperous spoke of it, not of...
Charles Cantalupo
January 25, 2016
Editor's Preface: To isolate one detail from Charles Cantalupo’s ekphrastic poem: Drawing the moment of stillness when the insect and...
January 25, 2016
Today marks five years since the Egyptian people launched the mass movement, galvanized around the occupation of Cairo’s Tahrir Square,...
Max Ajl
January 21, 2016
The United States’ founders were taken with the idea that they were building a New Jerusalem. Rhetoric of a City on the Hill animated the...
Jo-Marie Burt
January 19, 2016
The genocide retrial of former Guatemalan strongman José Efraín Rios Montt, a process which has been plagued by interruptions and delays...
Zoé Samudzi
January 13, 2016
Following his stated proposal to prevent future Muslim immigration to the United States, the internet has been awash with white liberal and...
Daryl Johnson
January 9, 2016
“The consequences of a prolonged economic downturn (and the election of the first African-American President) could create a fertile...
Andrew Miller
January 7, 2016
Layziehound has a bit of Muhammed Ali about him. He towers over most humans, for one thing. He's also a compulsive self-narrator—when he’s...
Melissa Smyth
January 4, 2016
"I said in my introduction that man is a yes. I will never stop reiterating that. Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to generosity. But man is...