Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist. Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Radio Hour: Charlie Hebdo’s Courage Award and Pulitzer Prize Finalist Laila Lalami
Historian Jon Wiener explains why he supports the protest against The PEN American Center's recognition of Charlie Hebdo with their 2015 award for courage....

Chronicles of the Veil
The following article by Laila Lalami is from the new LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2014 issue. The Journal is now available ...

VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....

The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian....
