Fashion
The Grammys Red Carpet Was Full Of Surprises
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that it’s awards season — our mid-winter excuse to lounge around on a Sunday night, order ……Read More
Lifestyle
Books
6 Poems: The Self-translations of Sargon Boulus
The poet-translator Mona Kareem has an essay up in The Babel Review of Translations, issue D9: The essay, “He Goes to the Place: Sargon Boulus Translates Himself ……Read More
Books
Language, Teaching, and Translations that ‘Carry That Feeling of Arabic’
Shahla Ujayli’s popular and acclaimed novel A Sky So Close to Us recently appeared in Michelle Hartman’s English translation. Hartman, who has translated nine books, also ……Read More
Books
Friday Finds: An Excerpt from Haji Jaber’s ‘Black Foam’
Although Haji Jaber’s Black Foam did not advance to the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist this week, we still hope to soon find his books ……Read More
Health
Dr. Pimple Popper Season 2, Episode 6 Features A Cyst Named Larry
Every week on Dr. Pimple Popper , dermatologist Sandra Lee, MD, meets with men and women suffering from rare, often confidence-crushing skin conditions. The boils ……Read More
Books
‘Outside Servitude’: A Novel Exploring Enslavement in Mauritania
There are only a handful of Mauritanian novels in English: one translation from French and the few novels written and self-published by Mohamed Bouya Bamba: By ……Read More