Richard van Leeuwen is a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam. This year, he won the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other La…
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In “crying out in his vindictive disarray, proclaiming that he has been, if not wayward, at least unassimilable…
Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (2004) transcended cultural boundaries to become a global environmental parable. This essay explores the…
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Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it…
The year 2025 has been a remarkable one for French writer Marc Alyn (b. 1937). First, La Rumeur libre published his three-volume collected works…
Not nearly enough writers are translators, but all translators are writers. (And novelists and poets and essayists and playwrights and memoirists.)…
