Götz and Meyer: A Serbian Tale of the Holocaust
David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is simultaneously a story of horror and shame, and an amazing feat of language and …
Category Archives: Art & Culture
To End All Wars: Adam Hochschild
If you’ve ever stood a picket line, leafleted about an unpopular cause, been arrested for civil disobedience, fought and lost against the powerful, …
Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …
El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa
Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a phrase existed. …
You May Hold My Falcon
Visit Welcome to Abu Dhabi, the Minister of Culture said. You may hold my falcon as we visit. He slipped …
Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation
I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …
Hula Girls: Coal Miners’ Daughters in Japan — a Movie
Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible …
Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …
Emerging Arab Voices: A Bilingual Reader
I’ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry …
All This Belongs to Me: A Novel of Mongolian Sisters; Or Is It?
I decided to take a break from the run of Arabic fiction I’ve been reading to catch up with a …
Paths of Glory: A Novel and A Film of War, Books,
As local author Adam Hochschild makes the rounds with his latest, amazing book, To End All Wars [following King Leopold’s …
Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …