Weina Dai Randel burst onto the literary scene a number of years ago with her duology about Empress Wu Zetian, China’s first woman leader. After winning the prestigious Rita Award in 2017 an…
historical fiction
January 20, 2022
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Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish…
Painting by the Iraqi artist Ghassan Faïdi / P65 dessin café 70 x 50 Confinement du printemps 2020 / Reproduced by permission…
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Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Wayne State University Press, 2023) is a…
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While war, injustice, and spiritual fatigue continue to poison the air, Yahia Lababidi finds a beauty-infused…
