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East Seventh Street: Christmas, 1937

by Harry Reynolds

[ january 09 ]

"I am nine years old. There is a God. Jesus Christ is his son."

The Xaragua Hotel

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ october 08 ]

"Governments sink as often as the sun, and during the night there's always a purge. Somehow the Xaragua has managed to avoid it all. Immunity however, usually comes with a jab of the disease."

Starling's Law of the Heart

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ june 08 ]

"Despite Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the heart in the seventeenth century, blood letting went on for another three hundred years."

Conversations with a continent - Madagascar

by Ron Singer

[ may 08 ]

This spring, a series of panels of experts on Africa were held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

A grain of dissimilarity

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ may 08 ]

In Greek legend a chimere is a fearful, fire-belching monster with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. For Haitians it means a gangster.

Conversations with a continent - Congo, South Africa & Angola

by Ron Singer

[ may 08 ]

This spring, a series of panels of experts on Africa is being held in New York. We present summaries of these panels.

All the President's Men

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

In Haiti, "unemployment is running at around 80%, corruption is so much a part of life that they might well hand out MBAs in it, and gangs like the Cannibal Army and the Little Machete Army still control the red zones."

Sabo

by Ron Singer

[ march 08 ]

"When I began reading about the sabo, I was hoping to have unearthed a microcosm of Nigerian unity. Now I just hope the sarkin and his waziri are still in business..."

Jinnah Express

by Michael Griffin

[ february 08 ]

"Rawalpindi bristles with moustaches, messes, gun oil - and whiffs of conspiracy. Seven types of traffic expel a soot of diesel into the mid-winter mist through which the bulked-out silhouettes of suicide bombers stride toward indefensible targets."

Rip off the ears: searching for Demosthenes’ secret in Mexico

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ january 08 ]

"It's difficult to find privacy in Mexico, least of all if you're traveling with a low-budget female impersonator show."