How Yusuf Idris's Stories Upended Respectability Politics in Egypt

How Yusuf Idris's Stories Upended Respectability Politics in Egypt

Ezzedine C. Fishere on a Great Egyptian Tragedian

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Elias Khoury's Unique Vision of Civil War Lebanon

Elias Khoury's Unique Vision of Civil War Lebanon

Abdo Wazen on Lost Memories in Lebanese Literature

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Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Dave Lucas Reads Memoirs of Hadrian in Lockdown

By Dave Lucas | June 8, 2020

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

And It's Great!

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2020

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted

With Jaquira Díaz, Mira Ptacin, Crystal Hana Kim , Iris Martin Cohen, and Michele Filgate

By Literary Hub | June 5, 2020

Why Didn't

Why Didn't "Brazil's William Faulkner" Achieve the Same International Fame?

Padma Viswanathan on Graciliano Ramos

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Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

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Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

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Nancy Wayson Dinan on Literature of the Before and After

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How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

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