Warscapes provides a lens into current conflicts across the world through fiction, poetry, reportage, reviews, art, photography, conversations and retrospectives of war literature from the past fifty years.
For the launch event, there will be a screening of Battle of Algiers followed by a talk with Saadi Yacef, writer, guerilla and filmmaker on whose memoir the movie is based. Buy tickets here...
The Warscapes inaugural issue will feature
excerpts from
excerpts from
Madeleine Thien's latest novel on the Cambodian war and genocide, Dogs at the Perimeter
Joe Sacco's graphic novel from Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza
plus
An essay reflecting upon Hollywood, Pirated Videos and Child Soldiers from the Congo by Emmanuel Dongala
Four Poems by Somali poet Ali Jimale Ahmed from his volume, When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas
Four Poems by Somali poet Ali Jimale Ahmed from his volume, When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas
