Category: Dispatch
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Planet News: The New Real is the Surreal
May 6, 2013 -
When news stories feel more fictive than real, the surreal horrors of public life call out for playful interventions. Here, Anthony Haden-Guest casts recent news in verse and animates his rhymed renditions of current events. More -
Bangladesh: A Last Gesture Recorded
May 6, 2013 -
On April 24, an eight-story building in a suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing hundreds of factory workers. Examining a photograph of a boy buried in the rubble, Bangladeshi writer Shameema Binte Rahman asks how his last gesture will be remembered. More -
40 Years in Solitary:
A Prisoner, An Artist, A DreamApril 15, 2013 -
Herman Wallace has been held in a six-by-nine-foot cell, for 23 hours a day, for over 40 years. In a new documentary film, Herman’s House, Angad Bhalla documents an artist’s efforts to visualize the home a prisoner longs for after decades in solitary confinement. More -
WikiLeaks and the War on Whistleblowers
April 8, 2013 -
Three years after WikiLeaks released the video “Collateral Murder,” which documented U.S. troops killing unarmed civilians in Baghdad, whistleblowers face long prison sentences while the politicians and military leaders whose crimes they exposed have gone scot-free. More -
Lewis Hyde: Coyote Installs Democracy
March 18, 2013 -
In 2004, poet and critic Lewis Hyde responded to revelations that U.S. soldiers tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib with an irreverent poem featuring Coyote as a “trickster” protagonist who imparts wisdom through his mischievous acts of rebellion. More