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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright

9/25/2021

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

9/18/2021

The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel.  …

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Gabo, Gone

4/17/2014

Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, …

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Literary Festival in Rangoon

2/6/2013

I would think that many, especially the young, would be dizzy with excitement in the ‘new’ Burma/Myanmar.  After decades of …

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Translation: Dancers at the Wedding

1/15/2012

One of the books I received for holiday good wishes was David Bellos’ “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?“, …

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Season of Migration to the North — Tayeb Salih, Sudan

3/25/2011

I’ve been trying to keep my focus on fiction and film from the North African/Middle Eastern countries where the 2011 …

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Wives Killing Husbands, Sons Killing Mothers

3/6/2011

For some reason that escapes me at the moment I picked up my worn old copy of Paul Roche’s translation …

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The Blue Sky — A Novel from the Tuvan People by Galsan Tschinag

1/20/2011

The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag, of  the high Altai mountains in Mongolia ,  is one of the most engaging, …

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Readings in Contemporary Arabic Literature

9/24/2010

I’ve been reading the marvelous Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, for many weeks, and have begun The Trench, the …

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