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Internet Writers Released

Internet writers Ahmed Mansoor and Nasser Bin Gheith were released on November 28, 2011, under a presidential pardon, a day after they had been convicted and sentenced to three… More

Occupy Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center was on lockdown last night after the New York Police Department erected heavy metal barricades all around the Center, even blocking off its small side entrances. Lincoln… More

Contained Violence

Perhaps Schweblin’s preoccupation with the thin line separating reality and fantasy, and with control, is the product of a society coming to grips with the legacy of a dictatorship… More

The Warmth of Other Suns

There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes… More

Remembering Daniel and Anna Keel

Sometime in the spring of 1997 I met my German publisher, Daniel Keel, for the first time. I was in Zürich for the publication of the German translation of… More

Essays from the Nick of Time

History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more:… More

Serious Men

Ayyan Mani’s thick black hair was combed sideways and parted by a careless broken line, like the borders the British used to draw between two hostile neighbours. More