topic: literature

Pawns (an excerpt)
January 4, 2012
Chapter 2 THEN… Back in time some people were so thin that they had to jump around in the rain to get wet. Back in time. GHETTO BOY Why am...
Reviews
100 Books about War
December 31, 2011
Warscapes asked readers to share titles of books evocative of war and conflict that have made a lasting impact on them – works which...
Reviews
An Elegy for the Libyan Disappeared
December 26, 2011
This March's Libyan spring revealed to the Libyan people and the world the falsity of the regime that Qaddafi had worked hard to hide. Some...
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Women's Bodies as Battlefields: Reflections on the Birth of Bangladesh
December 15, 2011
In her new book, historian Yasmin Saikia serves up some bitter medicine. And there's no spoonful of sugar at the end to ease the aftertaste...
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War for Dummies? Garthwaite's Breezy Guide to Conflicts
December 7, 2011
One of the least remarked upon aspects to the story of modern conflict has been war's transformative influence on the trajectory of...
retrospectives
From Kurtz to Kurt: Yasmina Khadra's Simplistic African Equation
November 20, 2011
Yasmina Khadra is arguably just as well known for the questions surrounding his identity as for what he has written. The nom de plum e of...
retrospectives
The Contradictions of Revolution: Boudjedra and Algerian History
November 20, 2011
The fiftieth anniversary of Algeria’s war of Independence is less than a year away. This war, that became the model of Third Worldism, is...
retrospectives
Warscapes in conversation with Saadi Yacef
November 5, 2011
In conjunction with the first-ever publication of the English translation of Saadi Yacef's original prison memoir, Battle of Algiers ,...
retrospectives
The Battle of Algiers
November 2, 2011
The Battle of Algiers: A Memoir, Dec 1956 – Sept 1957 Chapter 4: Solidarity It would take a long time to describe, in detail, the life that...