The Others
By Porochista KhakpourNovember 2011
Our November guest editor Porochista Khakpour explores the protean category of “Iranian-American” and its assorted manifestations.
Postcards from Karachi
Video by Ram DevineniOctober 2011
Poet and war correspondent Eliza Griswold reports from Pakistan on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Libya’s Reluctant Spokesman
Hari Kunzru interviews Hisham MatarOctober 2011
On the occasion of his second novel, Libyan author Hisham Matar discusses the effect of totalitarianism on personal lives, what makes the novel a great art form, and the Arab Spring.
The Eternal Politics of Debt and Forgiveness
By Anthony KammerOctober 2011
A review of early Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber’s latest book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years.
Weighed Down by a Good Meal
By Joshua HammerOctober 2011
The author reflects on an innocent comment made years earlier about a meal served during a “kidnapping” that would brand him in some people’s eyes as a pro-Palestinian stooge.
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FEATURES
In Search of Dalí in Tehran
By Iraj Isaac Rahmim, guest-edited by Porochista KhakpourOr, how I got advice from Grandpa Moses on Jewish prayers for the notorious Evin Prison.
INTERVIEWS
Myth About Myths
Shiva Rahbaran interviews Amir Hassan CheheltanThe Iranian writer on the tension between artists and intellectuals, the power of mysticism, and the long-lasting effects of the 1979 revolution.
POETRY
Ghost Horse Prelude
By Roger Sedarat, guest-edited by Porochista Khakpoura wounded man drags his one-legged body home from the war through the depths of winter to describe the sighting of the horse to his village.
FICTION
Pairidaeza
By Hooman Majd, guest-edited by Porochista Khakpour“It will never stop, and it will always be necessary. What I did to you was necessary, and what you do to me is necessary.”
ART
Cockettes’ Cusp
Photographs by Pooneh MaghazeheIn these photographs, a series of linked histories are forced together in Utah’s deserted Bonneville Salt Flats.
GUERNICA DAILY
November 4, 2011—Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
4 November 2011 -
 | Breaking news from the multi-partisan activist group. |
David Chura: First the Good News: At-Risk Kids (May) Get Some Justice
3 November 2011 -
 | News on juveniles in the federal justice system. |
Robert Reich: Washington, Pre-Occupied
3 November 2011 -
 | Until we reverse the trend toward inequality, the economy can’t be revived. |
Sergio Chejfec: A Machine of Illusions
3 November 2011 -
 | The Argentine writer on the English translation of his novel My Two Worlds, its meandering motifs, and its desire to remain or disappear. |
Ann Jones: The Incredible Shrinking Woman in Post-9/11 Hell
3 November 2011 -
 | One citizen’s misadventure in Securityland. |
Carole Joffe: Turning the Telephones on the Anti-Choice Bullies
3 November 2011 -
 | How one man fought back against the “civilians in the abortion wars.” |
Robert Reich: Greece’s Choice—and Ours: Democracy or Finance?
2 November 2011 -
| Rule by democracy or by financial markets? Based on what’s happened in America, choose the former. |
Carmen García: PAGE TURNER 2011: “Hanging Out” with Junot Díaz and Min Jin Lee
2 November 2011 -
 | A breakdown of the Brooklyn literary festival that dark, snowy Saturday. |
Jesse Tangen-Mills: Mark Twain and Rubén Darío: The Prince and the Pauper
1 November 2011 -
 | North America’s most famous comic author proves to Latin America’s most influential poet that sometimes a person never really dies. |
Lawrence Weschler: The Art of the Shakedown, from the Nile to the Potomac
1 November 2011 -
 | How corruption in the U.S. puts everyday corruption in Africa to shame. |
