Michael Varga

In 1995 the doctors told me I would probably be dead of AIDS by April 1997. I had retired early from the U.S....

In 1986 I was the vice-consul at the American Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was my first assignment in the...

Some villagers brought medications with instructions in English, Russian, French or German. They could read none of these languages, so I translated them...

“How soon can you get out of Canada?” asked the administrative officer at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in October 1995 when I...

Originally published in HIV Plus Magazine. You can read the original here....

Second Prize, 2010 Literal Latte Essay Award. When I was a child and my parents argued, my father used to escape to the...

Originally published in The Foreign Service Journal October 2009. You can read the original here....

Originally published in Notre Dame Magazine Autumn 2005. You can read the original here....

Originally published in Commonweal Magazine August 15, 1996...