The Corpse Exhibition

Hassan Blasim offers his first-hand account of contemporary Iraq, in surreal short stories alive with awe, empathy, and a native son’s vantage point.

Scapedogs

  “[Naples, Italy] is trying to stake out a reputation as a civic innovator by positioning Naples at the cutting edge of dog-waste eradication … The idea is that every dog in the city will be given a blood test for DNA profiling in order to create a...

Starting Time

March 3: “[W]e are proposing to inform people — to inform many people who would not otherwise be informed…”  

Heart & Soul

March 1: “Without black Americans, something irrepressibly hopeful and creative would go out of the American spirit…”