The Mukhtar and I
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Michel S. Moushabeck
An exile’s very last summer in the old city of Jerusalem
The Bottle Man
House of Anansi / Su Chang
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Su Chang
A Chinese-Canadian Story
You can't talk about oil
Private
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Nastaran Makaremi
Refineries, a curse, and black gold. Workers, legends, petroleum. Nastaran Makaremi’s novel "Total" revolves around oil. And then becomes part of its next transformation.
The Screams in the Basement of Aesthetics
Alexandrapociello, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Roberto Bolaño
On Art, Silence, and Moral Complicity
The Hippie by the Lake
Private
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Heike Behrend
Ethnologist Heike Behrend is researching a German provincial prophet who ran a commercial "Garden of Paradise" in the Altmark region in the early 20th century
“As Long as I Dream in Arabic, I Will Write in Arabic”
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaydan
A conversation with Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan about her latest novel, Lebanon, memory, patriarchy, migration – and why literature is stronger than a manifesto
Writing Against Forgetting
Julien Salinas
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Iman Humaydan
Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan speaks about her novel 'Songs for Darkness', the memory of war, women’s lives, migration, and why literature can preserve what history and politics often erase.
The fish rots from the head down
Pete Marovich
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Evan Osnos
Today’s financial elite are ultra-rich. The term refers to the ultimate level of wealth, beyond anything that can be tangibly grasped. In “The Haves and Have-Yachts”, Evan Osnos brings us news from another world.
The End of the Odyssey
Universal
If only Christopher Nolan had listened to James Joyce. Instead, he transforms Homer’s fluid, ambiguous 'Odyssey' into a rigid monument of masculine pathos, plot-driven drama, and sensory overload.
The New Republic of Fear...
AI-Illustration: Axel Timo Purr
The Queer Body and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Iraq