October 21, 2014
Violence is a key ingredient of human storytelling: from our first oral tales, violent acts have heightened audience attention and...
Opinion
October 15, 2014
Tales of repression and subjugation are ubiquitous in the military-ruled northernmost borderland of India, the state of Jammu and Kashmir...
Literature
January 24, 2014
By afternoon of the tenth day, a column of army trucks and tanks and other machinery advanced towards Toka. Partly cloaked in clouds of...
Opinion
February 7, 2013
All indicators are pointing to a looming sectarian civil war on Iraq’s horizon. It is possible to avoid this civil war, but so far, the...
Literature
January 6, 2013
Preface Zimbabwe’s history has been punctuated by years of conflict: the first chimurenga, resistance against the occupying white settlers...
Reportage
September 24, 2012
It was late morning when we got to the border post, a wooden shack on a dirt road in the westernmost reaches of Ivory Coast. A gendarme...
Art
July 24, 2012
It is difficult to categorize Lamia Ziadé’s graphic novel, Bye Bye Babylon , about growing up during the civil war in Lebanon, as such. It...
Reviews
May 24, 2012
James Baldwin once referred to love as a kind of war that forces you into growing up. In Aminatta Forna’s transcendent novel, love is just...
Literature
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...