Six poems, including:
Boogie Nights
I like my tyrants like I like my heroes
That is, crushed by a giant chandelier –
A red flag, when they wear bare feet in loafers
Or use the language of porn
In expressions of love
An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
On Natalia Ginzburg’s Valentino, newly translated: a Q&A with Alexander Chee.
« Genocide Studies » is a house with many rooms. It accommodates and even encourages a broadening of its central concept. And like all academic fields, it presumes its object of study will always be there.