The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s …
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Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
Gabo, Gone
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, …
Literary Festival in Rangoon
I would think that many, especially the young, would be dizzy with excitement in the ‘new’ Burma/Myanmar. After decades of …
Translation: Dancers at the Wedding
One of the books I received for holiday good wishes was David Bellos’ “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?“, …
Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih, Sudan
I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011 …
Wives Killing Husbands, Sons Killing Mothers
For some reason that escapes me at the moment I picked up my worn old copy of Paul Roche’s translation …
The Blue Sky — A Novel from the Tuvan People by Galsan Tschinag
The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag, of the high Altai mountains in Mongolia , is one of the most engaging, …
Readings in Contemporary Arabic Literature
I’ve been reading the marvelous Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, for many weeks, and have begun The Trench, the …