Warscapes Articles
March 21, 2014
The publication of Clan-cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns has aroused deeply contrasting reactions from...
March 12, 2014
Is poetry the answer to war? Of all the systems of communication we have, one of the most effective in considering and talking about the...
March 4, 2014
“People here have washed themselves clean of old ties. You should be doing the same: letting go of old attachments, not pursuing them,”...
February 21, 2014
During outbreaks of violence at antigovernment protests, the truth is often clouded by accusations and blame. Responsibility for who fired...
February 4, 2014
In his debut collection of poems Topaz , Brian Komei Dempster writes: “I feel war’s incision.” These poems cut open the past line by line,...
January 15, 2014
Drug violence in Mexico has been raging now for nearly a decade. Approximately 80,000 people have been killed, but news hardly reaches the...
December 18, 2013
“Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans...
December 13, 2013
Audiences will notice that the most striking aspect of Nagieb Khaja's new film, My Afghanistan: Life in the Forbidden Zone , is how...
December 5, 2013
“Hunt or be hunted” is a truism in Duro Kolak's life and seems to apply to everyone and everything in his world. The reserved, 46-year-old...
November 7, 2013
In the first story of The Blind Fisherman , a collection of Mia Couto's early stories, an old woman watches her husband dig her grave. “We...
October 2, 2013
Mai Ei, one of the fifteen poets featured in Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry , writes in “A Letter for Lovers and Haters...
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