Berfrois

9/11

The Complicity of Health and Medical Personnel in Post-9/11 Torture

The Complicity of Health and Medical Personnel in Post-9/11 Torture

Pre-9/11 New York City

Pre-9/11 New York City

Matt Ruff reads from ‘The Mirage’

Podcast:

Matt Ruff reads from ‘The Mirage’

John Beverley: Latin America’s Pink Tide

John Beverley: Latin America’s Pink Tide

‘Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all’

‘Gitmo in the present millennium is no departure at all’

No WMD

No WMD

Double Vision

‘A blistered FDNY here, a melted AMBULANCE there’

‘A blistered FDNY here, a melted AMBULANCE there’

‘Cloning Terror’ by W. J. T. Mitchell

Book excerpt:

‘Cloning Terror’ by W. J. T. Mitchell

‘After 9/11, even Marxists yearned for the city’s rough, garish world of capitalism to spring back to life’

Nafeez Ahmed: ‘…it is Hitchens who has become after 9/11 an unhinged and deranged cheerleader for Total War.’

(Read Hitchens’ original article)

(Read Gore Vidal’s interview with Johann Hari)

Ashis Nandy on culture, terror, despair…

‘Suppose I long’ by Ali Graham
Poem: ‘Suppose I long’ by Ali Graham
‘The Young Woman Sleeps While the Artist Paints Her’ by Linda Mannheim
Short story: ‘The Young Woman Sleeps While the Artist Paints Her’ by Linda Mannheim
‘Inversnaid’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poem: ‘Inversnaid’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins
‘Buy me yesterday’ by Gertrude Stein
Poem: ‘Buy me yesterday’ by Gertrude Stein
‘eating girls backwards’, ‘Soko Sucking…’, and ‘A little lighter’ by Eva Griffin
Poems: ‘eating girls backwards’, ‘Soko Sucking…’, and ‘A little lighter’ by Eva Griffin