Poetry has a long history in the Middle East (as author Khaled Furani examines in one of the new books listed below), and Palestinians in the footsteps of Mahmoud Darwish and many other predecessors a…
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June 5, 2013
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Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is…
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The end of June marked the anniversary of the death of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking…
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Claire Jia’s debut novel, Wanting, was published by Tin House on July 1. It tells the story of a rejuvenated…
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About the NovelThis is a story of dispossession and a man who wrestled with God: sometimes dispossession…
The burgeoning shoegaze movement in the United Kingdom and Ireland of the late 1980s caught the world by surprise; at the height of grunge’s…
