Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other La…
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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…
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The city is a bad wind,the suburbs, nauseating heat waves,and the streets, breath wheezed out of fevered…
