Guernica: April 15th, 2009

Rwanda. 2007. © Ted Alcorn

Here are the highlights from the April 15th issue of Guernica :

15 years after the beginning of the genocide, Ted Alcorn reports from Rwanda on what has changed, and, sadly, what has not, in Picturing History in Rwanda .

Via metaphysics, Angela Gualdoni’s paintings try to fashion scraps into modest and humble metaphors

We Need to Win : Environmental child prodigy Severn Suzuki on how the economy can benefit from green initiatives, why Canada & the U.S. must lead, & the role for native peoples in conservation.

Guided by Voices: In the stories of Palestine & Israel, the author sees a disturbing parallel to what is happening to the “poem” that is the United States.

Our Reality Has Not Been Magical: With a newly elected leftist government in El Salvador, exiled Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya is optimistic about the future of a country that once responded to his novels with death threats.

Patricia Engel’s Dia explores the sexual tensions that can exist between long-time friends of the opposite sex.

In Canada, Henrietta Goodman writes: When he rows out to collect the geese, / they see him floating like an unexpected god…