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In Thirty Shadow Birds (2019), Fereshteh Molavi constructs a literary landscape where…
In his 1981 book Danse Macabre, Stephen King writes that the horror genre is primarily concerned with power. This quote often leaves the non…
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Born in 1974 in the parish of Galveias, Portugal…
The author pays tribute to the prolific Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, best known as a leftist writer who began his career in the 1960s,…
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Teo’s Durumi (Zando, 2025), the latest book in Elaine U. Cho’s adventure-filled Alliance series, follows a tightknit…
