Articles tagged "Colonization"

The Iron Caterpillar (Mag: Articles)

By J. William Cally | May 1, 2012

Strange phenomena can strike such dread into human hearts that I ask you to believe in the one that knotted the stomach of the young diver named Paolo, who noticed the haze of the tunnel when he was returning…...

Translated from French by Paul Curtis Daw

Preparations for a Close Escape (Dispatches)

By Arnon Grunberg | April 7, 2008

In preparation for my trip to Iraq in May, I have now met with two war correspondents. One of them is an American. We met in a bar in Brooklyn. The other is a Dutch war correspondent with whom I had dinner…...

The Literature of the Future (Dispatches)

By Arnon Grunberg | March 18, 2008

A couple of weeks ago on a cold night I walked to the Mercantile Library—for the first time in all these years that I have been living in Manhattan I have to admit—to listen to a discussion about…...

The Last Farm Novel?: An Interview with Michiel Heyns (Mag: Articles)

By Dedi Felman | January 5, 2008

I met Michiel Heyns—author, translator, and professor of English at Stellenbosch University from 1987 until 2003—last year when he was here in the U.S. as a visiting professor at the University…...

from Peregrinations in Argentina (Mag: Articles)

By Witold Gombrowicz | March 1, 2005

Journey to Argentina's Far North At six in the morning in Buenos Aires I board the long-distance train called El Tucumano—glittering, with an electric locomotive. I look around the carriage:…...

Translated from Polish by Danuta Borchardt

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