Book Reviews
Adania Shibli’s “We Are All Equally Far from Love”
"We Are All Equally Far From Love" is hypnotically visceral in its accrual of mundane details
Abdellah Taia’s “An Arab Melancholia”
Yet, it is not homosexuality or an Islamic culture that torments the narrator of "An Arab Melancholia"; rather, love is the tyrant in this brief, emotional saga.
Etgar Keret’s “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door”
If a man comes knocking at your door to steal your magic goldfish, what do you do?
May 2012
Insularity, Mobility, and Imagination: Writing from the Indian Ocean
Francophone writing in the Mascarene region dates back to the eighteenth century.
Center of Flacq
Flacq during the day is nothing more than a vast market; buy, sell, pound the pavements, work the sidewalks.
The Iron Caterpillar
He had the sense of a giant creature slithering within the tunnel.
Traces of Our Fathers
The prairies of Brittany have sugarcane in their memory.
Diary of an Old Mad Woman
So you come from there, it must be so beautiful so wonderful; why do you live here when your island is so lovely.
Isle Say Blood
always the sea always / shameful the shameful ocean / bodies battered before touching the shore
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