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A reader, angry about Michael’s position on the occupation, demanded his money back for all the books of Michael’s he’d purchased. You can read about a sterile street, but until you see the shuttered shops, see Jewish settlers freely walking on ground where Palestinians — who own the property — are forbidden, it’s hard to
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She is, she’s great. It’s more of an intellectual exercise. And then I wrote about two-thirds of the sequel, Darkness, Take My Hand, and then the book got accepted for publication. No, there was a little bit of trepidation at first. I didn’t write it fast because it came out fast, but because I felt
“On Exile,” a prose essay by Mahmoud Darwish. Mohammad Shaheen (Interlink) According to the publisher: When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008, his friends visited his home and retrieved poems and writings some of which are gathered together in this volume, translated into English for the first time. “The End of the Night,”
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But works that represent themselves as instructional texts serve as a means for notable scholars to take positions in important disciplinary debates; often, the position taken in such a book is a notably clear, short, and constructive statement of the approach that has informed the author’s own distinguished career. Evidence is Becker’s fifth book on
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Since its inception, Friendshipment Caravan Program Coordinator John Waller estimates that over 100 buses — typically yellow school buses — have been donated to organizations in Cuba. Gayle (1956) that segregation laws on public transportation were unconstitutional. More will doubtlessly unfold in the coming years. They had watched drivers verbally and physically assault women riders
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He is pals with Duterte. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives. Sinofuturism is narrated by a text-to-speech software which sounds like Portal’s GLadOS. Sinofuturism is the final piece in the current exhibit, “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017,” at the Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing. Suddenly two screens fill with a room piled
Bernofsky adds: The application instructions are a bit of a mess where permissions are concerned (they clearly didn’t read my translation rights primer and wound up asking for something that doesn’t make sense), but muddle through as best you can, and let them know if you have questions. 8, 2017. The application deadline is
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We shouldn’t ignore, then, the fact that Terms and Conditions begins with an adaptation of a page from Rex Morgan, M.D. But while there are a number of similar moments of what we might want to call anti-capitalist critique throughout Terms and Conditions — for instance, the Gene Colan–inspired look of blankness and fear on
One year the rumor was so strong that the newspapers sent reporters and photographers to my house at 4:00 a.m. We don’t have to understand the German language to learn from his works. I wrote a novel, Devil on a Cross, in Gĩkũyũ on toilet paper with a pen they had given me to write
The Sarah Book feels like an effort to convey that love in its most powerful aspects — passion, after all, refers to an ordeal. His work has been featured in The Fanzine, BookForum, Full-Stop Magazine, and other publications. A long time goes by before Scott and Sarah see each other again, an encounter that offers
Robin MogerThis grim future history is one of several dystopias to hit the shelves, and was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2016. # Zaat (1992), by Sonallah Ibrahim, trans. It resonates strongly with The City Always Wins, depicting an Egypt spun out of control, a living representation of communal
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McPherson’s depth of research, the inventiveness of his prose, and his sensitivity to municipal undercurrents make this a first-rate work of social analysis. Kennedy and the different kinds of ugliness displayed in the television hit Dallas. Not so for more modern history, where imaging technology has become so ubiquitous and persuasive that nothing ever ends.
Because if you go see their movie and you don’t get the message, then they’re a bad writer. I don’t think this is because of my taste in literature, but just because that’s what makes sense to me. And if you wanted to a have a symbol of a modern, thinking woman, de Beauvoir was
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More concerning than these internal flaws, however, is the odd manner in which some commentators have remarked on the novel. Kalfař’s talent lies in his elegant handling of the three omniscient ghouls traveling with Jakub: Czech history, his alien companion, and the Czech literary canon itself. Jakub’s conversations with his hairy alien often turn into
Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLinkedInRedditGoogleTumblrPinterestPocketLike this:Like Loading…‹ Tamim Barghouti and Translating Popular Arabic Poetry into EnglishCategories: poetry, Syria Salih was born in Misyaf, in northern Syria, and her own mother died young. An excerpt of a poem dedicated to her daughters Sham and Sulafa “You Will Go Out of the Body’s Walls,” was translated by Issa Boullata. Her
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Also, Amelia Gray returns to recommend Kristen Iskandrian’s novel Motherest. A fascinating discussion about six fascinating figures in the American pantheon: Susan Sontag, Mary McCarthy, Diane Arbus, Joan Didion, and (the two expats) Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. LARB Radio Hour: Deborah Nelson on “Tough Enough”; Plus Praise for “Motherest” By LARB AV – June 22,
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Peer highlights the changing currents of Turkish life on which Erdoğan capitalized. Instead, according to the evidence Peer presents, Modi and Erdoğan are driven by an immediate hunger for power and an ambition to alter history, to reimagine their nations’ values and place in the world. It was during his tenure in Gujarat that the
By 1971, young Black and brown Americans in inner cities and in prisons were being exposed to the rhetoric and actions of the Black Power movement and beginning to understand the nature of this oppression in new ways. Some men, realizing that they were about to die, took solace in the idea that the world
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It would be inconceivable to have a world without music, or to find someone who isn’t moved by music. I think there is room for both, I really do. There’s such profound depth there. But the more we talk about it, the easier it will be for others to talk about it. I never heard
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The English translation of “In Jerusalem” was done by Radwa Ashour and Ahdaf Soueif, and it begins, effectively, in an italics that feels almost like a whisper: “We passed by the home of the beloved.” It’s a long narrative poem — a popular poem — and here it moves into a language where spoken-word poetry
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