As technology develops. it causes changes in the mediums that house our literature, but our human ability to tell stories stays the same. In addition to novels, video games are a powerful digital medi…

Maryam Lamei, Birds Are Gathered in God (2021) / Courtesy of the artist / www.maryamlamei.com Searching for solace following the events of October 7, Yahia Lababidi discovered Iranian vi…

Scene from the premiere of Omar at the Spoleto Festival in May 2022 / Photo by Leigh Webber / spoletousa.orgThe opera Omar, which had its North Carolina premiere at Carolina Performing Arts o…

Terence Hammonds (American, born 1976), Hope, 2022, HD print on aluminum, 24 x 18 in. Photo by the artistUniversal Magnetic: New Works by Terence Hammonds is currently showing at the Taft…

A writer’s time attending the theatrical trial that became the docuseries The Vow leads him to reflect more generally on the culture-wide moral relativism and abuse of language that allo…

Credit: Duncan Cumming / Flickr Shokoofeh Azar, an Iranian writer living in exile in Australia, traces the women’s uprising forty-three years in the making as Iranians throw off the restrictions…

A still from Prey (2022). Courtesy of 20th Century Studios. Hulu’s Prey—a narrative between a small band of Comanches, a humanoid predator, and French fur trappers on Comanche h…

The scene depicting the conversation between a pair of sentient googly-eyed rocks overlooking a mountain (Courtesy of A24 Films) A film scholar breaks down this “head-spinner” of a film in which…

Rayan Sarlak in the role of Little Brother from the film Hit the Road (2021) Editorial note: The following review includes spoilers. Hit the Road (2021), Panah Panahi’s deb…

Chilean writer Isabel Allende is known for her fantastic, passionate novels written in the style of magical realism. She has published twenty-five books and sold more than seventy-five million copies…

Play Images: Umakant and Shriram Shirodkar A playwright in Pune, India, considers the contemporary relevance of the fifty-year-old cult play that remains one of the most written about and…

Olivia Colman plays Leda in The Lost Daughter / Courtesy www.imdb.com An Italian film scholar reviews Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter…

Photo courtesy of the author I worked on the Broadway production of Jersey Boys for three years before I ventured up to the fly rail of the August Wilson Theater. It was pre-show and automat…

Lamar Babi, who plays Matthew (Niran's neighbor and love interest), enjoys a pomegranate while Niran's family gathers over a meal set on the floor / Photo by Kenneth Moss Born in Baghdad to an an…

The outdoor Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum / Photo by Samir Meghelli, Curator The Smithsonian’s…

BARBAR, Heartbeat (The Painter and the Thief), 2018, oil on canvas 150 x 220 cm Only connect! That was her whole sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,…

Photo by Deborah Vaia Amber Ambrose Aurèle is a shoe designer, teacher, and art historicist. In 2012 she graduated as one of the first-generation Master Shoe Design at ArtEZ Fashion Masters. She…

Rama Panda performing a Naga dance in Puri, Odisha State / Photo courtesy of the author “Gouranga has been diminished by fate,” writes Jitendra Nath Misra, “so let us give him a home.” In the fol…

Photo by slgckgc / Flickr Returning home to Manitoba, J. R. Patterson finds writer Jim Harrison’s meatballs are the comfort food he needs. There’s nothing quite like diving into a good meal…

Adrian Aguilera (Mexican, b. 1981) and Betelhem Makonnen (Ethiopian American, b. 1972), untitled (a flag for John Lewis or a green screen placeholder for an America that is yet to be), 2020…

Stills from I Dream of Greenwood, with creative direction by Marie Casimir, produced by Michelle McChristian, and directed by Kollin Williford / Courtesy of Scissortail Media The co-chore…

Nona Faustine, In Praise of Famous Men No More, 2019, courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, © by Nona FaustineIn Fantasy America, a new exhibit at The Warhol, five cross-disciplina…

Street mural for Grenfell Tower, with poem by Ben Okri, North Kensington, London, image courtesy of IranWire and #PaintTheChange. London-based writer Malu Halasa canvasses the Middle Eastern and…

The artist is a lawyer who defends any accused person when society plays the role of the judge. I am generally biased for injustice and those stripped of their rights.―Walid Ebeid Reflect…

Jasna Đuričić, in her role as Aida Selmanagic, from Jasmila Zbanic's film, Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) A war refugee from Bosnia now living, writing, and teaching in Sweden reviews Quo…