March 2016

(Anonymous)
March 24, 2016
"Just now, an Iraqi guy attempted to commit suicide here," read the quick email to a Warscapes editor yesterday from inside the prison at...
Tim LaRocco
March 22, 2016
“Yuon is the name given by Kampuchea's people to the Vietnamese since the epoch of Angkor and it means 'savage,’” wrote Saloth Sar,...
Philip Fried
March 18, 2016
Author's Introduction In Interrogating Water (Salmon, 2014), I deploy an array of forms and formats—ballad, sonnet, villanelle, psalm,...
Preethi Nallu
March 15, 2016
For decades the running joke in Myanmar, known as Burma until 1989, was that George Orwell crafted his novel 1984 based on his personal...
Shiyam Galyon
March 14, 2016
In the five years since the Syrian Revolution began, the country has endured a multi-faceted conflict and a massive humanitarian crisis...
Jane Wong
March 14, 2016
Eliash Strongowski’s collage Outleap is the cover of Khaty Xiong’s first book of poems, Poor Anima , released last year from Apogee Press (...
Mike Allison
March 9, 2016
While civil charges involving illicit enrichment have recently moved forward against former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes , he might...
Shimrit Lee
March 7, 2016
Kamal Aljafari remembers when Jaffa was transformed into civil war-torn Beirut. Under the direction of Menachem Golan, the production team...
Nadifa Mohamed
March 5, 2016
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and stretching deep into the middle of the twentieth, exhibitions of “native” people were held...
Scott Ross
March 2, 2016
When Dominic Ongwen stood before the International Criminal Court on January 21, he confronted a team of prosecutors and judges presenting...