Articles tagged "New York"

Three Times Germany (Mag: Articles)

By Uwe Mengel | November 2, 2009

Three Times Germany is an audio production of twenty-three monologues performed by eight actors. The monologues are based on interviews of East Germans, West Germans, and Germans living in New York. Retracing…...

Translated from German by Uwe Mengel

Brooklyn Trilogy (Mag: Articles)

By Eduardo Lago | July 2, 2009

For Paul & Enrique 1 In the early eighties, during his first trip to New York, the writer Enrique Vila-Matas waited at a bus stop on Fifth Avenue, near the Metropolitan Museum. He thought he would…...

Translated from Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed

A Voice in the Crowd: A Sketch (Mag: Articles)

By Antonio Muñoz Molina | May 1, 2008

Ignacio Abel stopped in his tracks when, through the hubbub of Penn Station, he heard someone calling his name. Which, of course, was impossible. In his three days of waiting in New York, he'd received…...

Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

from Canary (Mag: Articles)

By Klaus Pohl | March 1, 2006

Characters: Siggi Grünebaum, an old diamond cutter Benny Schorsch, his partner Violetta Grünebaum-Moser, Siggi's daughter Roland Moser, her husband Elfie Schneider, a young woman The play…...

Translated from German by Lucie Pohl

from “The Perfect Novel” (Mag: Articles)

By Carmen Boullosa | February 2, 2006

Chapter Five We were working on "recording" the following scenes from my novel: the Sunday lunch in the garden at Manuel's house, where the two families part amicably, mothers and aunts included; Manuel's…...

Translated from Spanish by Samantha Schnee bilingual version

Iran in Theater (Mag: Articles)

By Zara Houshmand | July 2, 2003

Last summer in New York, two Iranian theatre events cracked open a small window on a dramatically alien world. Each made its impact without benefit of a text that could be comprehended by the audience;…...

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