Sculpture
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April 6, 2017 |
Anecdotes often shed light on the way we see art and literature. A few weeks ago, I was skimming through Rachel Corbett’s book in the Paris metro when a young man came toward me and asked me whether t... -
August 3, 2012 |
This week was a mix of delight and sadness—we said "hello" to recently-discovered material from both Katherine Mansfield and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but we also said "goodbye" to a beloved writer and cri...
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Children’s choir at the 2014 La Matanza Book Fair / Photo by Mauro Rico / Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación / Flickr
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To Hisham Harbi
who said to me: “don’t stay in the shadows”
but I didn’t listen
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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...
Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan: The Culture and Craft of the Ghazal (Jacar Press, 2017), a melding of personal and craft essays...
