In a ceremony on February 27, 2010, presided over by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who is the Coordinator of the Council On Communication and Citizenship f…

 The landscape of southern AlbaniaPhoto (c) 2006 by John K. CoxSince the end of communism and the revival of old customs and compulsions, ten thousand people have died from blood feu…

Alexandros Vasmoulakis is one of many street artists whose artwork reflects the urban fabric of contemporary Greece. His shattered, floating figures cover many of the abandoned neoclassical buildings…

 Adrianne KalfopoulouAnd then what you wanted was salt, . . . but you could not turn to look. —Cecilia Woloch, “Salt”My parents were deliberate about escaping their place of origin and d…

The waves of mass killing that swept across the old Mitteleuropa during the 1930s and ’40s are neither forgotten nor ignored by twenty-first-century writers. Four recent novels illustrate this con…

 For three days in November 2011, fifteen women writers gathered in Oaxaca City, Mexico, filling a colonial apartment next door to a church dedicated to the Virgin of Solitude. These woman are al…

¡Ay! diidxazá, diidxazá diidxa'rusibani naa, naa nanna zanítilu dxi guiniti gubidxa cá.Oh, Zapotec, dear Zapotec language that gives me life, I know you will not dieuntil the…

In the Ukrainian literary tradition there have been scores of women poets, several of them reaching extraordinarily prominent status. The most renowned of them include the legendary seventeenth-centur…