Ever since early Islam, Jews have been dubbed the people of the book. The title stuck in European lands too, a deferential nod to the role of the Hebrew Bible in the Western canon, the breadth of Jew…
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World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will confer the 2024…
The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Middle East Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and World Literature…
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In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In…
Photo by Laurent BadessiThe last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New…