Peru | ‘Dreaming of Sunday Afternoons,’ by Giovanna Pollarolo (chapter 24)

“El sueño del domingo (por la tarde)” may reflect Giovanna Pollarolo’s experiences growing up in Tacna, Peru, as the daughter of Italian immigrants. Certainly the text represents weekend routine—including the present, with television or online streaming substituting for radio—in vast portions of Latin America. As family lunch concludes the father “lies in bed barefoot … / the radio at full volume / Mom irons and grumbles.”

The football is on.

Iran | ‘For the Sake of My Right and Not Football,’ by Anonymous (chapter 32)

Art and protest coincided on 8 Jun 05 when Iranian director Jafar Panahi scheduled the shooting of his cinema verité project Offside at a World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain. As he filmed a project whose true purpose he had kept cloaked from authorities, in another part of Azadi Stadium in Tehran some 200 women demanded right of entry in an unrelated demonstration coordinated the previous night. Some of these women were the authors of the manifesto “For the Sake of My Right and Not Football.”