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November 23, 2012
“What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early...
November 15, 2012
Fittingly, Alexandra Fuller begins Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness with a story of her vibrant mother, Nicola Fuller, taking...
November 8, 2012
Joan Didion writes, “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Rachida Madani’s Tales of a Severed Head gets at the very heart of why we...
October 24, 2012
I met the great Kapuściński in the spring of 1999, when he gave a journalism workshop at a Montreal university. His first day on campus,...
October 11, 2012
The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical...
October 3, 2012
Every structure is organized on acts of exclusion but what is repressed and excluded does not disappear but always returns to unsettle...
September 25, 2012
The sixth film from American writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, The Maste r tracks Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an animalistic,...
September 20, 2012
Binyavanga Wainaina occupies a prominent place in contemporary African literature. A recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and...
August 31, 2012
Julie Wakeman-Linn immediately plunges her readers into the chaos and violence of 1990’s Zimbabwe in Chasing the Leopard, Finding the Lion...
August 7, 2012
A theorization of the present is often a thankless task. The combined forces of serendipity, human agency, and political jockeying tend to...
July 16, 2012
"I do remember some happy moments, yes, but there was always a gaping hole that could not be filled. Sometimes I am attacked by a profound...
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