Posts Tagged with ‘Literature’
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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
25 Sep 2021Richard 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
18 Sep 2021The 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
17 Apr 2014Gabriel 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
06 Feb 2013I 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
15 Jan 2012One 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
25 Mar 2011I’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
06 Mar 2011For 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
20 Jan 2011The 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
24 Sep 2010I’ve been reading the marvelous Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, for many weeks, and have begun The Trench, the…
