Playlist
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November 7, 2016 |
From epic sagas of the thirteenth century to modern crime fiction, Icelandic literature has something for everyone. Despite the country’s small population, Iceland has a rich literary culture and a t... -
February 25, 2016 |
Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar. In the March/April 2016 Global Frequency column, we took a listen to Musique de Nuit, a collaboration between French cellist Vincent Segal and Malian kora p... -
September 8, 2015 |
Alif. Photo by Tony Elieh. To celebrate the release of Alif’s Aynama-Rtama (reviewed in WLT’s inaugural World Music column here), we’ve put together a short but substantive playli... -
September 29, 2014 |
Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Anderson, is a pairing of two witty, charming protagonists: Renée, a fifty-four-year-old con... -
February 3, 2014 |
“There was the music and the clutter of voices from the big house, and the wind shoving and pulling at them, and she thought, I want this, I know I want this. This is how you get from one world to the... -
July 18, 2013 |
“They say time finds you out, don’t they?”– The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending is a quiet sort of novel. His narrator introsp...
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