Tag: literature

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Drinking from the Original Fountain

Suleiman Al-Bustani

March 08, 2023

Suleiman Al-Bustani brings Homer into Arabic.

Little Boy Lost

Kim Hew-Low

March 02, 2023

Can Australia’s tradition of lost child stories be rewritten?

A Good Death

Kristen Martin

January 31, 2023

Instruction manuals for living written by the dying.

Hong Kong Literature’s Growing Pains

Jaime Chu

January 11, 2023

The city’s Anglophone writers are caught at a crossroads.

Sad Girl Manifesto

Grace Byron

December 06, 2022

A lost novel returns to the cult carny world of the gonzo queen.

Mother May I

Maya Solovej

November 29, 2022

Vigdis Hjorth’s reality fiction.

Life in the Fap Lane

Rob Madole

November 21, 2022

Reevaluating the work of John Barth.

Shirley Hazzard’s Republic of Letters

Anthony Domestico

November 16, 2022

For Hazzard, life and literature were warp and weft.

Yoko Tawada’s Enchanted World

Reed McConnell

October 31, 2022

The Japanese novelist productively unsettles her readers’ expectations.

Letters and Fists

Eka Kurniawan

October 17, 2022

The literary gems of Eka Kurniawan.

Annie Ernaux’s Total Novel of Life

Jamie Hood

October 03, 2022

On the French writer’s revelatory diaries.

Difficult People

Apoorva Tadepalli

September 29, 2022

The all-too-human novels of Gwendoline Riley.