AGNI 54
Contents
Editor’s Note
Fiction
Essays
Good People in Times of Evil
Translated from the BCMS by Zorica Stoilović and Ellen Elias-Bursać
“We Know Nothing. It Isn’t Taught”: Secret Histories of Argentina’s Dirty War
On Nonviolence and Literature
Premature Witness
Arthur Koestler in Civil War Spain
…and justice for all
by Ilan Stavans
Poetry
The Two Mice (transfused from the Scots of Robert Henryson [1420-1505] by Seamus Heaney)
by Aesop
Translated by Seamus Heaney
Eidetica
Turn About Is Fair
Two Secretaries of State Require Heart Surgery
Pure Music
by Teresa Cader
Earthquake
by James Galvin
Guest
The Semiotics of a Truck Overturned in Fog
The Trail
William Remembers the Outbreak of Civil War 1983
by Maxine Kumin
A Cut
The Face Also Has Bruised Dignity
by Bei Ling
Love-Letters for Cell Ten
by Glyn Maxwell
The Fair That Always Comes
by Glyn Maxwell
The Flood Towns
by Glyn Maxwell
Burning Song
by Glyn Maxwell
The Headline
A Few Words on the Soul
Translated from the Polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
What the Body Can Say
Nikos at 42
My Eyes are the Shimmering Waters
Art Feature
Lunacy ’Toons
Conversations
Introduction to Interviews with Bei Dao and Rita Dove
Vladimir Nabokov, 1958
Reviews
An Unforeseen Destiny: Pinochet, History, and Memory
Who Owns Death?
“As the Songwriter Wrote . . .”
From New Grapes to a Complex Wine
The West and Genocide in Africa
by Edward Kissi
A World Reformed
Amnesty International Fortieth Anniversary issue. This big issue (over 400 pages) is chock full of amazing stuff, including poetry by Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin and Charles Simic, Daniel Berrigan, and Homero Aridjis; fiction by Tom Bissell and former Iranian political prisoner and torture victim Faraj Sarkohi; previously unpublished interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, Rita Dove, and Bei Dao; translation by Seamus Heaney; and first-person testimony of great acts of heroic compassion in the Balkan War recorded by Dr. Svetlana Broz, granddaughter of Marshal Tito (later reprinted in Utne Reader and in a Dutch magazine).
| Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Guest Co-Editor | Joshua Rubenstein | ||
| Managing Editor | Eric Grunwald | ||
| Advisory Board | Leslie Epstein | ||
| Robert Pinsky | |||
| Derek Walcott | |||
| Art Editor | Gerry Bergstein | ||
| Music Editor | Eric Chasalow | ||
| Fiction & Poetry Editor | Askold Melnyczuk | ||
| Associate Poetry Editor | Claire Jarvis | ||
| Associate Fiction Editor | Jennifer Joerg Blum | ||
| Editor Emerita | Sharon Dunn | ||
| Editorial Assistants | Brett Brehm | ||
| Katie Krell | |||
| Lauren Kruskall | |||
| Erika Nelson | |||
| Contributing Editors | Thomas Bahr | ||
| Erin Belieu | |||
| Sven Birkerts | |||
| Lucie Brock-Broido | |||
| John J. Clayton | |||
| William Corbett | |||
| Stuart Dischell | |||
| Sharon Dunn | |||
| Thomas Sayers Ellis | |||
| Marie Howe | |||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | |||
| Ha Jin | |||
| Alex Johnson | |||
| Susan Johnson | |||
| Fred Marchant | |||
| Fiona McCrae | |||
| Gail Mazur | |||
| Joe Osterhaus | |||
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | |||
| George Packer | |||
| Solomea Pavlychko | |||
| Liam Rector | |||
| Scott Ruescher | |||
| George Scialabba | |||
| Tom Sleigh | |||
| Sue Standing | |||
| Rosanna Warren | |||
| Oksana Zabuzhko |