Novel Without A Name: of Vietnam, A Man, A Country and A War
Beginning to prepare for a February trip to South East Asia I do what I always do — read. What …
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Oblomov: The Greatest Russian Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
1842 to 1880: what a forty years for readers of literary masterworks! Beginning with Gogol’s Dead Souls and ending with …
Under Fire: A French Novel of WW I Trenches
Although All Quiet on the Western Front is the best known, and possibly the best written, novel of soldiers …
Storm of Steel: Another German’s View of the Trenches, WW I
World War I was the bloody birthing ground for war literature, both of the trenches and the years of recovery. …
Breaking Knees – Stories from Syria by Zakaria Tamer
Syria is in the news, unhappily. Citizens are fleeing the fighting and overwhelming the resources in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. …
Message of Love from Valdemar Gris — Miguel Labordeta
MESSAGE OF LOVE FROM VALDEMAR GRIS by Miguel Labordeta From my own man sadness wrenched out in bits of bitter …
Cities of Salt: The Trench — The Pit in the Desert
Abdelrahman Munif‘s trilogy,* Cities of Salt is one of those era-defining efforts of literary imagination and craft. It has been called …
The Mirror – a Poem, Jose Angel Valente
The Mirror Jose Angel Valente Today I saw my face, so unfamiliar, so strange and fallen in this mirror. It …
Cities Of Salt: Wadi No More
Cities of Salt, a sweeping trilogy* of novels, and particularly the first, with the same name, by Abdelrahman Munif does …
A Mind at Peace — But Not So We’d Know it; A Novel from Turkey
There is the old adage ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all’ which is at least …
Destiny – A Poem, Miquel Labordeta
You know my friends we won’t be back again,. The virtue of the rain is annihilated in the suns and …
Swords of Ice: A Modern Novel from Turkey
When we move from country to country, culture to culture we recognize many things in their generalities: carpets, clothes, foods, …