“Yellow Dust,” Tokyo, 2009 / Photo by OiMax / FlickrIn this short essay, one of Japan’s early avant-garde writers turns his attention to dust, asking, “Just what kind of game are you playing?”…
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Five or six years ago, I was reading Ihsan Abdel Quddous (1919–1990) with my Arabic teacher and thought of writing an article about him in English,…
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and…
The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature…
Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of…
In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In…