Articles tagged "Revolution"

Imagining more Autumns for North Africa’s Patriarchs: The Dictator Novel in Egypt (Dispatches)

By Hosam Aboul-Ela | February 11, 2011

In the mid 1970s, at a time when Latin American countries chafed under brutal dictatorships, an amazing literary phenomenon swept through the region. Three powerful novels were published within months…...

Ride of the Valkyries (Mag: Articles)

By Juan Carlos Chirinos | February 1, 2011

For Vasco Szinetar The president sits in the backseat of the car and watches confusedly as his wife struggles to climb in. Her clothes are cumbersome, extravagant, even though she dressed in a hurry. He…...

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Life Is a Novel (Mag: Articles)

By Fritz Glockner | July 1, 2008

Translator's Note: In Fritz Glockner's Memories of the Underground: A Clandestine Life, Miguel Ángel abandons not only his job but also his wife and five children to join a clandestine guerrilla…...

Translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Polli

from “Chaabi” (Mag: Graphic Lit)

By Xavier Delaporte and Richard Marazano | July 1, 2008

Translated from French by Edward Gauvin

The Pigs (Mag: Articles)

By Antonio Moresco | August 1, 2005

You have to be away from Italy to see Italy. Or maybe just slightly displaced within its borders-on one of the islands, for example. I was in Favignana a few years ago, and late one afternoon, on an old…...

Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein

Le Marais (Mag: Articles)

By Various Authors | April 1, 2004

In Things I've Seen, Victor Hugo acts as witness to a good many uprisings in Paris scattered through the reign of Louis Philippe (1830-48). And so he describes the insurrection of May 12, 1839 (triggered…...

Translated from French by Avriel Goldberger

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