The author’s father, Surinder Singh, onboardThe Southampton bound for England, 1958In the wake of her father’s death, a Malaysian author discovers the writer within and ends up writing he…
Puterbaugh Essay Series
Ghassan Zaqtan (left) and Mahmoud Darwish in a 2007 photo taken by Palestinian poet Bashir Shalash.After presenting a sweeping landscape of Arabic poetry since pre-Islamic days—w…
A Bangladeshi writer traces his quest to dodge the external and internal censors and considers what fiction at its best can do: “sail past all censors to uncover the tender and transgress…
