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Tales of the Marvelous, News of the Strange
Tom Sleigh visits Jordan, which struggles not only with pluralism, but also with finding ways to support hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Aleppo Burning: The Ban on Immigration and the Middle East Refugee Crisis
Michelle Tusan on the origins of the Middle East refugee crisis in the Treaty of Versailles.
The Civil War of Memory: On Mercè Rodoreda’s “War, So Much War”
Bécquer Seguín on the long underrated Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda and her recently translated novel “War, So Much War.”
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston on an expedition to find the fabled Ciudad Blanca, the lost city of the Mosquitia.
French Thought in a Nutshell: On Sudhir Hazareesingh’s “How the French Think”
Maddening and paradoxical we ignore France's extraordinary intellectual and cultural heritage at our peril, says Sudhir Hazareesingh.
The Plague Within Us: Shlomo Sand on France and its Intellectuals
As Shlomo Sand suggests in his new book, the French intellectual was never what he was cracked up to be.
“A Certain Riddle of the Sphinx”: The Enduring Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
Dustin Illingworth appreciates the mystery of the infamous Voynich Manuscript.
The Future Is Here: An Interview with Riad Sattouf, Author of “The Arab of the Future”
Leah Mirakhor interviews Riad Sattouf about the award-winning graphic memoir trilogy “The Arab of the Future” and his career in France.
We Other Kakanians: Literature in the Aftermath of Empire
Adrian Daub reviews Marjorie Perloff’s “Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire.”
Goodbye, Eastern Europe!
Jacob Mikanowski shares a few lessons about a vanishing Eastern Europe.
When You Can’t Escape the Road: An Interview with Juan Pablo Meneses
Bernardita García talks to author Juan Pablo Meneses.
Lost Voices from the Indian Ocean
Nile Green on Francis R. Bradley's "Forging Islamic Power and Place:The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia."
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