Michael McCanne
TERESA SOLAR ABBOUD Foreign Office
By Michael McCanneHalfway through last year’s memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the official sign language interpreter, Thamsanqa Jantjie, started to deviate from what the world leaders standing next to him were saying.
In Exile
By Michael McCanneThe 1991 disintegration of Yugoslavia shattered a 73-year-old project aimed at ethnic and national unity. Miljenko Jergović’s newly translated collection of stories, Mama Leone, traverses the before and after of that dissolution, passing through language, family history, and exile to form a fragmentary Bildungsroman.
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
By Michael McCanneA Period of Juvenile Prosperity collects the images of a young, untrained photographer named Mike Brodie, who for several years wandered back and forth across the country by freight train and documented the people he encountered along the way.
