The Villain's Dance Andre Hughes and Christopher Perry praying for ecstasy during Sunday

praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass

British novelist Ethel Mannin decided to see America "the hard way"—traveling by bus from New York to California and back

Public symbolism meets private reflection: writer and urban explorer James Attlee reads the signs that appeared in windows and hears from artists

in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica

poems and many photographs of the great Palestinian and world poet

The Villain's Dance Andre Hughes and Christopher Perry praying for ecstasy during SundayFinalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street kids led by the devious Ngungi. A chance encounter with the mysterious Monsieur Guillaume seems to offer a way out . . . Meanwhile in Angola, Molakisi has joined thousands of fellow Zairians hoping to make their fortunes hunting diamonds, while