Working Day: New Orleans

April 28, 2011 | Old School | New York CityWith Sarah Broom, Richard Campanella, Fatima Shaik, and Billy Sothern; curated by Nathaniel Rich New Orleans has long been a city from… More

PEN Appeal: Zarakolu and Güler

March 14, 2011 Mr. Sadullah Ergin Minister of Justice 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers dedicated to protecting freedom of… More

PEN Appeal: Armando José Chicoca

March 11, 2011 Dr. João Maria Moreira de Sousa Procurator General of the Republic Procurador Geral da República Procuradoria Geral da República Rua 17 Setembro Luanda República de Angola Fax: + 244 222 333 170… More

Summer Rain

Sabri was astonished to see the young woman absently smiling in the pouring rain as she passed through the gate and touched, almost caressed, the trunk of the withered… More

Screwed!

Suddenly it occurred to me I wouldn’t be spending today in the fields either, bent double cutting the wheat. I felt a little surge of happiness, but it quickly… More

Quiet Chaos

I do spinning. Yolanda’s cellphone starts ringing in the nick of time: it forces her to walk a few steps away from me to answer it, and I can… More

The Chukchi Bible

The First Man of Our LineErmen made a slow ascent of the high crag that hung over the foamy tide line. The alarmed gulls and guillemots bombarded him with… More

Kopenhaga

Autumn. A season that suits me particularly well. For several days now, I haven’t been outside. I have an excellent reason: storm, heavy rain, the risk of getting a… More

Poems

KG 3.53Though only death has baffled himhe owns the universe, the stars … —Tom Paulin, ‘Chorus’‘Me shogun.’‘Me bigwig.’‘Me the chief’s son.I make the rules here.’It’s a load of crap.Laughing, skipping,Tumbling,… More

Colonies

Creoles, MestizosSince it so happens you are strange and Iam strange, together we will shock the world.Families as they stroll by will point at us,and we’ll be famous, quite… More