Voices
Patrick Samway, S.J., professor emeritus of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, is the author of Educating Darfur Refugees: A Jesuit’s Efforts in Chad. Father Samway is also a former literary editor of America.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
The basic question centers on whether the present military conflict in Sudan will metastasize into a protracted, all-out civil war as both generals repeat in their own ways the atrocities begun by Mr. al-Bashir years ago in Darfur.
Arts & CultureVantage Point
A wide-ranging interview with Andre Dubus on literary influences, faith and the process of writing.
Arts & CultureFeatures
When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.
Touloum. Farchana. Kounoungou. The names of these towns in eastern Chad, when pronounced syllable by syllable by the local natives, evoke, as they have told me on a number of occasions, a sense of pride and history. But for almost a year now these towns have given their names to huge refugee camps f