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...
Literature
May 5, 2013
Translator's Preface The Tuner of Silences is one of a number of novels by Mia Couto, Mozambique's most internationally known writer, and...
retrospectives
January 25, 2012
Mao Zedong may actually not have coined the phrase, "Political power flows from the barrel of a gun." It appears in a 1938 text he wrote,...