Ugandan novelist and short-story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the E…
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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…
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Las siete cabritas (2000), the literal translation of which would…
