Warscapes Articles
February 11, 2013
Foreword Whether lauded as a beacon of democracy, or vilified as a failed state overrun by pirates and warlords, Somalia’s narrative, as a...
January 6, 2013
Preface Zimbabwe’s history has been punctuated by years of conflict: the first chimurenga, resistance against the occupying white settlers...
December 17, 2012
Translator’s Introduction On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to a vast, sprawling dump, lies the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine...
November 5, 2012
Translator's Introduction “Nora, Like Ibsen’s” is one of the darker stories from Miljenko Jergović’s new collection Mama Leone (Archipelago...
October 9, 2012
At all times, a student’s life is most difficult: the war-like attention to details during exams, the guilt of failing to wake up at six...
August 14, 2012
Translators' Introduction Transit is a succession of monologues by each of the characters: Bashir, a very young veteran of Djibouti’s civil...
May 29, 2012
Is it possible to write about someone whom you have never met or seen or touched or listened to? Is it possible to write about someone I...
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...
February 6, 2012
The short story Night Flow was published in Perfect magazine in 2008 in Burma and some of the sections were censored. Written during the...
January 9, 2012
Click here for Shobasakthi in conversation with Warscapes on Sri Lanka, the situation of Tamils and being a refugee writer... From the...
January 1, 2012
Our Mohalla clings to the Jhelum at the far-end of the town, bound on the other side by the bypass road of the main highway of the region...
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