May 2014

Kevin Alexander Davis
Life, Death, and War in Post-2003 Iraq
May 28, 2014
“So, we, too, are statues, but we never stop crushing one another in the name of the one who made us. We are statues whose permanent...
Audrea Lim
Verso Blasts Back
May 26, 2014
It has become something of a parlor sport among the liberal snarkeratti to single out “public intellectuals” like Tom Friedman for mockery...
Vera Kiss
No Steps Can Lead Them Further
May 21, 2014
Although Burmese President Thein Sein has initiated a series of democratic changes that the international world optimistically welcomed,...
Geoff Wisner
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
May 19, 2014
The Wind Rises is the latest animated film by the Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the 73-year-old creator of such classic works as...
Claudia Moreno Parsons
The Long View of North American History
May 18, 2014
The poet Edward Dorn (1929-1999) was born in Illinois during the Great Depression, a fact that would mark him forever. Struggling through...
Alfredo Jaar
Genocide in absentia
May 16, 2014
In August 1994, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar traveled to Rwanda in the aftermath of the country’s infamous genocide. He documented scenes of...
Flore Murard-Yovanovitch
A Small Mosaic of the Inhuman
May 14, 2014
Translation from Italian into English by Luigi Attardi (Nail Chiodo) 1952-2014. Europe once again has a barbed-wire face. Its reality,...
Franco Galdini
"My Sister Didn't Give Her Consent"
May 13, 2014
“My sister didn’t give her consent. Girls are just stolen like livestock." (1) “My kidnapping case changed my attitude towards many things...
Suchitra Vijayan
Bearing Literary Witness
May 7, 2014
Violence founds and preserves the state. Monopoly over the legal use of violence is, Max Weber reminds us, indispensable to all modern...
From Home: Three Poems on the Experience of War and Distance
May 4, 2014
Editor's Introduction Marcel Proust writes of being in his bedroom and hearing what seems to be a riot in the street outside. Then, his...