Warscapes

Literature

Cryptogams & the NSA

by John Sifton

What does the NSA make of James Joyce? The author finds out the hard way in his imagined brush with US intelligence over the PRISM data-mining program...
Reviews

Strange Cargo

by M. Neelika Jayawardhane

South African artist Jane Alexander's first major North American survey of tableaux, sculptures, and photomontages is now showing at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.
Conversations

An Ode to Exile

Gëzim Hajdari in conversation with Anita Pinzi

Exiled Albanian poet Gëzim Hajdari in an extraordinarily candid conversation on poetry, politics, ethics and Albanian history and society. Photo ©Pier Pomponi/World Focus
Art

A Factless Autobiography

by Suchitra Vijayan

A photographer reflects on the many moods of the city of Kabul.
Literature

The Tuner of Silences

by Mia Couto

One of Africa's most prolific novelists, Mozambique's Mia Couto tells the story of young Mwanito struggling to connect with his past in this recently translated work.
Reportage

The Poet of the Dead

by John Harold Giraldo Herrera

A haunting portrait of María Isabel who writes poems to the murdered Colombians whose bodies float past her ranch on the banks of the Cauca River.
Opinion

In the Shadow of Bunkers

by Majid Maqbool

A Kashmiri native remembers his boyhood growing up amidst the ominous and terrifying presence of bunkers in his neighborhood.
Literature

Never Mermaids

by Troy Blacklaws

An excerpt from Troy Blacklaws' post-apartheid novel "Cruel Crazy Beautiful World," exposing tensions rumbling at the heart of South Africa.
Opinion

Derrida and the Crisis of French Zionism

by Andrew Ryder

Benoît Peeters’ recent biography of Jacques Derrida sheds light on Derrida's complex relationships to Algeria, Palestine, Zionism and the Middle East in general.
Art

A Tenuous Refuge in Lebanon

by Michael Goldfarb

MSF's Michael Goldfarb spent a week with Syrian refugees and an MSF team in Lebanon documenting a severe deterioration in humanitarian, health and living conditions.
Conversations

Baloji in Conversation

Baloji & Ts'eliso Monaheng

An interview with Baloji, a Congolese rapper raised in Belgium whose cutting-edge music is impossible to define.
Literature

Through the Branches

by Merlin Ural

A Kurdish girl reminisces about her father and tries to reconcile their relationship in the face of political exile...
Poetry

The Moment Before Tears Would Well Up

by Wing Tek Lum

Selections from Wing Tek Lum's "The Nanjing Massacre: Poems."