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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Immediately, “infamy” became American code for “Pearl Harbor,” as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness—a stab in the back that cried out for retaliation and would never… More
Turkish publisher’s arrest sparks outcry
Ragip Zarakolu, founder and director of the Turkish publishing house Belge, was among more than 40 activists detained Friday in Istanbul. Belge has published Turkish editions of books that… More
For Occupy Berlin: A Song and a Prayer
This past week I visited Occupy Berlin, a movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street in New York (and also, of course, by the recent demonstrations in Spain and above… More
Hocus Bogus
There is no beginning. I was begotten—just like you—and since then I’ve been lumbered. More
Euphrase Kezilahabi: Selected Poems
What remains now / are some millet grains / scattered in the desert / by a blind sower. More
The Possessed
Despite the novel’s complexity, its central question is very simple: How does someone who doesn’t actually have tuberculosis end up spending seven years at a tuberculosis sanatorium? I often… More
The Noble Truths of Suffering
His head resembled an armchair—the deep-set forehead, the handlebar-like ears, the jutted jaw-seat—and I could not stop staring at it. He handed me back my passport with the invitation… More
Interrogate the Slow Jam: A Conversation with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
I grew up in a very small town; my eyes are not great and I did not walk well for a long time, so I spent a lot of… More
Bbc Journalist Found Guilty, Released Under Amnesty Law
Urinboy Usmonov, journalist with the British Broadcasting Service’s Central Asian Service, has been found guilty of spreading Islamic propaganda through his reporting on the banned extremist group Hizb-ut-Tahir. More
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
We were fifteen and it was the first weekend after school started, and me and Jasmine were sitting side by side on one of Mr. Thompson’s ripped-up green-and-white lawn… More