Gulf Road and the Kuwait City skyline / Photo courtesy of the author
Reflecting on the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the current pandemic, the author writes about wanting “to grab the fu…
Invasion
April 30, 2020
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Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003) was an author immersed in the Western literary tradition. His first readings were of classical authors and the Spanish…
