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Happy Are the Happy Yasmina Reza John Cullen, tr. A short advance excerpt from Yasmina Reza’s new novel fairly crackles with electric wit and precise comedic timing. Her award-winning talent as a playwright coupled with a lively prose style lends... -
Filmed during the workshop and event "A-B-A-B-A : from hear to here" — choreographed by Christina Werner and Eric Ellingsen (Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK Berlin). Volksbühne Berlin, July 2014. Edited to complement "A Suite of Contemporary... -
Misrak Terefe (far right) with fellow Ethiopian performance poets. This says the meaning of country is sitting in the balance.In order to say, to be able to see,the balance, the leader must seethe country from the people’s side.From the... -
For a group of art performances in July 2013 called Wax and Gold organized by the Netsa Art Village, visual artist Mulugeta Gebrekidan presented “Invading Samsung Square” to protest the corporate advertising takeover of Addis Ababa’s... -
Illustrations by Marla Johnson. Typography by Jen Rickard Blair. Yao Ming WineryRENDEZ-VOUS White cuvéeDry/0.75/€9.99 A gift from heaven after all those swills not worth calling by the name whose only proper use is for flushing the toilet,... -
Jonathan Wright. Photo by Tom Pilson The life of this interview began when Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright were announced as joint winners of the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ. A writer and filmmaker,... -
for Mia Couto Dream, Dream, Dream.Never cease to dream Dream on, MiaYour beginning A tale of yesterdays Your today A tale of future years And the voyager never rests... -
Photo by Francis Bijl/Flickr World culture today is developing amid expanding globalization, which means that national literatures appear to develop more and more similar features. Vera Shamina and Tatyana Prokhorova discuss... -
Serhiy Zhadan and Lyubko Deresh This past summer, two Ukrainian writers celebrated milestone birthdays, a decade after the Orange Revolution and amid new upheavals. Serhiy Zhadan... -
Photo by Victoria Calligo y Solivella While Slovene writer Polona Glavan’s debut novel explored the journey of young Europeans, in the following story, two widowed neighbors form a routine that allows them to look back...
