October 2013

translated by Annmarie Drury
October 29, 2013
Translator's Preface Euphrase Kezilahabi (b. 1944) is a major Swahili author, a pioneer both in fiction – where his works move from social...
Chiwoniso Kaitano
October 24, 2013
The last few years have seen the rise and mainstreaming of a culturally significant type of creative. A handful of examples: in literature...
John Harold Giraldo Herrera & Rodrigo Grajales Murillo
October 21, 2013
If multinational enterprises continue to extract gold through strip mining in Marmato-Caldas, the second largest municipality in gold...
Brenda Marie Osbey
October 15, 2013
Brenda Marie Osbey’s long poem, “History,” from which we have published an excerpt here, comes from her recent collection History and Other...
Asim Rafiqui
October 15, 2013
One evening, standing on a hill overlooking Paizoo Khan's small mud house located close to the Afghan border, I was struck by the...
Geoff Wisner
October 10, 2013
From Akron to New York to Des Moines, Miami, and San Diego, the major exhibition Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui has been...
Jane Wong
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...
Michael Busch
October 1, 2013
The most significant art exhibit on view in New York at the moment is “Iran Modern,” a beautifully curated show that opened recently at the...