June 2014

John Sifton
A Great Gust of High Explosive Love
June 29, 2014
After a full century, direct memories of the First World War - a largely purposeless conflict that wasted lives with unthinkable profligacy...
Hilary Matfess
Shadow Justice in Nigeria
June 27, 2014
On the night of April 14, a group of militants, dressed as Nigerian policemen and wielding weapons, stormed into a government-operated...
Upasana Dutta
When Worlds Collide
June 26, 2014
The Orchard of Lost Souls is not an easy read. The writing is lucid, the events gripping and the characters, for the most part, delineated...
Josh Hutson
Two Poems
June 23, 2014
Editor's Introduction “The doctor says the problems are the chemicals in my brain,” begins Josh Hutson’s poem “Red Spices.” Indeed, the...
Hassan Ghedi Santur
Proust in Somalia
June 23, 2014
“As my African Express flight from Nairobi made its slow descent into Mogadishu, I looked out the window of the plane and saw the shores of...
Bhakti Shringarpure
Concerning Fanon
June 17, 2014
Concerning Violence , a documentary by Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, opened to a packed theatre at the Sydney Film Festival last...
Jeong Chang
Soccer: From Beauty to Duty
June 17, 2014
The opening line from Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow lays out the trajectory of the book: “The history of soccer is a sad...
Thomas Wilner
A Prisoner Swap and the Law
June 14, 2014
Every day brings new criticism of the Obama Administration for the deal it struck to bring Bowe Bergdahl home. How could the president...
Bergdahl release ©Taliban
David Rothstein
They Come in Ones and Twos
June 10, 2014
They come in ones and twos, sometimes more. Some of the patients have fresh bullet holes or machete wounds, while others suffer wounds that...
Ayantu Tibeso
#OromoProtests in Perspective
June 5, 2014
Since April 25th, thousands of high school and university students across Ethiopia’s largest region, Oromia, have turned out in peaceful...