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Stirring the Ashes: A Conversation with Harry Harootunian
A historian turns to the horror in his family’s own past.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
A Chinese Silicon Valley? Not So Fast
Julien Crockett on the future of tech in China.
Corruption Trickles Down: A Conversation with Sonya Bilocerkowycz
John Dixon Mirisola speaks to Sonya Bilocerkowycz about her debut collection of essays, “On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine.”
Distorting the Everyday: On Silvina Ocampo’s “Forgotten Journey” and “The Promise”
Claire Mullen appreciates Silvina Ocampo’s “Forgotten Journey” and “The Promise,” now available in English.
The Professional Stranger: On Abdelkebir Khatibi’s “Plural Maghreb”
A major new translation of essays by a seminal Moroccan scholar of postcolonialism.
Among the Felines: On Bohumil Hrabal’s “All My Cats”
Natalia Holtzman herds “All My Cats” by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson.
The Case for Progressive Zionism
Can you be both a Zionist and a progressive?
Thirteen Ways of Looking at “Black Square”
Shifra Sharlin presents 13 ways of looking at Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square.”
The Social Limits of Israeli and Palestinian Literature
Danielle Drori reviews “Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary.”
Naguib Mahfouz, Storyteller
What “The Arabian Nights” has to teach us about the compassion — and violence — of stories.
The Durassian Mysteries: On Marguerite Duras’s “Me & Other Writing”
Natasha Boyd reviews Marguerite Duras’s “Me & Other Writing,” out now from Dorothy, a publishing project.
Melancholy Recollections: On Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers”
Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s “Family Papers” is a rigorously researched chronicle of a Sephardic clan.
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