Books

Every January I return to South Asia to experience an assault on all my senses by two of the best-attended English language literary festivals in ……Read More

For a second time, translator Jonathan Wright has won the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, this time for his translation of Saud Alsanousi’s The Bamboo ……Read More

ArabLit’s list of 15 notable Arabic books forthcoming in translation in 2017 — and Ma’n Abu Taleb’s All The Battles forthcoming in September from Hoopoe Fiction should’ve ……Read More

Happy New Year to each one of you; may all of your wishes come true. 2016 has taught me a bunch of brutal lessons, and ……Read More

First things first, Once Upon A Time In India: A Century of Indian Cinema is not actually a book. It is actually half book, half ……Read More

The phrase “freedom of expression” is ever on the lips of Iraqi politicians post-2003, Iraqi journalist and author Afrah Shawqi wrote before she was kidnapped. But, acclaimed ……Read More