November 2012

Charles Cantalupo
Hearing the Horn
November 28, 2012
Inside Cinema Odeon in Asmara, no one stood at the marble and mirrored espresso bar. Three students sat amidst the two dozen gold formica...
Prashant Rao
Meditations on Iraq
November 25, 2012
Editor's Preface As the tenth anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq draws near, the country has largely been left behind by other...
Meredith Benjamin
Imaginary Encounters
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...
Samuel Everett
Farid Boudjellal: An Algerian Exception
November 18, 2012
Sixteen years after the French conquest in 1830, unlike Morocco and Tunisia, Algeria had become an integral, legal and administrative part...
Hannah Swamidoss
Nostalgic about Empire
November 15, 2012
Fittingly, Alexandra Fuller begins Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness with a story of her vibrant mother, Nicola Fuller, taking...
Boniface Mwangi
"Bury the Vultures!"
November 13, 2012
During and after the 2007 elections in Kenya, around 1,100 people were killed and 600,000 displaced when political and tribal groups...
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Jane Wong
To Tell, To Live
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...
Miljenko Jergović
Nora, like Ibsen’s
November 5, 2012
Translator's Introduction “Nora, Like Ibsen’s” is one of the darker stories from Miljenko Jergović’s new collection Mama Leone (Archipelago...
George Ciccariello-Maher
Notes from the Frontlines of Venezuela’s Social War
November 1, 2012
“In their housing developments they placed first, broken bottles on top of their walls, then, barriers and armed guards, barbed wire, bars...