Elisabeth Jaquette
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Digital illustration by Emily Holson, Eyes of the Withholder (2024)Tensions build between a child and a tree, both grappling for the attention of a mother. The lemon tree was a gift from our…
- New York. New Directions. 2020. 144 pages. ADANIA SHIBLI'S THIRD NOVEL, Minor Detail, cements her position among the top ranks of Palestinian novelists working today. In her…
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Photo: YSBRANDCOSIJN / 123rf stock photo Who needs confusing laws and bothersome committees when you have an autocrat writing principles for every aspect of your life? He was not tall or br…
- Brooklyn. Melville House. 2016. 217 pages. Building on an Egyptian literary dystopic tradition, Basma Abdel Aziz transforms queuing into a metaphor for the pervasive institutional and moral c…