Matt Reeck

Matt Reeck has won grants from the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation, and the PEN-Heim Fund. Forthcoming translations include Chamoiseau’s French Guiana: Memory-Traces of the Penal Colony and Zahia Rahmani’s “Muslim”: A Novel.

Summer 2019

“Muslim”: A Novel by Zahia Rahmani

By Zahia Rahmani

Dallas, Texas. Deep Vellum. 2019. 145 pages. The Algerian-born francophone writer Zahia Rahmani’s experimental prose poses a seemingly simple yet complex question: What does it mean to be a migrant o...
Winter 2019

Weaving a Creole Patrimony

By Patrick Chamoiseau

Camp de la Transportation in French Guiana. Photo: Rodolphe Hammadi In this excerpt from French Guiana: Memory-Traces of the Penal Colony, Chamoiseau explores the possibilities of rewriti...