November 2013

Jane Wong speaks to Aracelis Girmay
The Snail’s Quiet Record
November 30, 2013
In “To a Snail,” Marianne Moore imagines a snail as a poem, valuing its “absence of feet” and the “curious phenomenon of its occipital horn...
Kenneth Bunker
Michelle Bachelet’s Legislative Majority
November 25, 2013
On November 17, 2013, Chile held its sixth presidential election and seventh legislative election since the return of democracy in 1989...
Feroz Rather
Despadida, Doris
November 23, 2013
Nov 17, 2013: For past one week, I’ve been staying aloof in my Delhi apartment, gloomily musing about the latent flames within a writer...
Bhaswati Ghosh
The Bulldozer
November 21, 2013
I was sleeping when suddenly it started banging inside my ears, and I jumped up on the bed. As I looked out of the window, I could see the...
Patrick Sykes
Artificial Urbanism and the Fortified City
November 15, 2013
While security considerations have always been a part of the urban design process — and are arguably becoming more so — few modern cities...
Janet Hamlin
Sketching Guantanamo
November 7, 2013
Janet Hamlin has been covering Guantánamo for seven years, making more than 25 trips to the prison. Her work provides a rare and unique...
Thomas B. Wilner
Missing the Point at Guantanamo
November 7, 2013
Two recent stories about Guantánamo from two of the country's most respected news organizations highlight just how little attention the...
Matt McGregor
The Cosmic and the Casual
November 7, 2013
In the first story of The Blind Fisherman , a collection of Mia Couto's early stories, an old woman watches her husband dig her grave. “We...
Michael Busch
Petropassions and Privatization in Mexico
November 2, 2013
NOV 2nd, 2013: Enrique Krauze has an editorial in yesterday's New York Times analyzing the resistance to all-but-a-done-deal oil reforms in...