Excerpts from The Believer: Sisyphus in the Capital

Sisyphus and species conservation

HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE**media[16047]**A figure from Greek mythology, Sisyphus is often depicted as a man rolling an immense boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down every time he nears the top. He’s forced to repeat this action for eternity in the Underworld, as punishment. Through the classical influence on contemporary Language and Culture, tasks or projects that are considered laborious or near-futile are now described as Sisy…

Excerpts from The Believer: Sisyphus in the Capital

“A national psyche is loosened when someone is allowed to publicly flaunt the agreements we have all made with one another.” - - -Crime, punishment, and the legacy of TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO’S failed coup. - - -These were among the remarks delivered to the people of Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, July 27, 1990, by Yasin Abu Bakr, né Lennox Phillip, a former police officer turned community organizer, whose paramilitary organization, the Jamaat al-Mus…