June 2012

Nathalie Carré
Borderland
June 29, 2012
Nathalie Carré: Bound to Secrecy ( Borderland in its french translation) is your third book and the first be published in French. You have...
Geoff Wisner
Hidden in Plain Sight
June 26, 2012
In 1990, ten years after Robert Mugabe took power as the leader of an independent Zimbabwe, I spent six months living and working there. I...
Vikram Odedra Kolmannskog
My Big, Fat, Gay, Indian Wedding
June 22, 2012
I got out of bed, showered quickly and put on a white sherwani suit that my cousin had brought from Leicester especially for the occasion...
Alizah Salario
Depicting an Invisible War
June 17, 2012
“We call them wookies.” I was on the subway, reading. A man glanced over my shoulder, and I could feel him reading along with me. I can’t...
Michael Bronner
Everybody Wants a Drone!
June 15, 2012
“Everybody wants a drone!” Sascha Lange, the German dronemaker EMT Penzberg’s business development mensch, is standing beneath one of his...
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Laura Seay
A View from Goma
June 12, 2012
GOMA, June 9: Goma has changed. What just a few years ago was a tense city under frequent rumors of impending invasion by armed groups is...
Alain Badiou
The Racism of Intellectuals
June 7, 2012
The record vote for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in this year’s French elections stunned everyone and left them scrambling for answers...
Myrna Nader
In Sarmada
June 6, 2012
Unsurprisingly, given the conflict being reported in Syria today, Fadi Azzam’s debut novel Sarmada has been heralded, in certain literary...