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Stealing Memories: On Anders Rydell’s “The Book Thieves”
Ashley Valanzola is captivated by “The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance” by Anders Rydell.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Où sont les neiges d’antan?”: On “Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky”
Alexis Levitin contemplates “Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky,” edited by Bryan Karetnyk.
A Carnal Contact with Reality: On Pasolini’s Novels
On a great director’s neglected novels.
Let It Go: Niña Weijers’s Debut Novel and Understanding the Universe
Rebecca Waldron on Niña Weijers's novel of self-erasure and self-discovery.
Egypt and the Enemy Within
Carol Berger and Marie-Jeanne Berger report on recent developments in Egypt, in the wake of attacks on security forces and civilians.
In Search of Strong Women
Priyanka Kumar considers Manal al-Sharif's "Daring to Drive" and Omar Saif Ghobash's "Letters to a Young Muslim."
A Man of Little Consequence
On “Six Four” by Hideo Yokoyama.
Acquisition and Empire: On James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World”
On the origins of the British Museum.
Books Fall Apart: On Nancy Perloff’s “Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art”
Eugene Ostashevsky explores “Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art” by Nancy Perloff.
A Lexicon of the Indigenous Body: Images of Autonomy and Desire
Natalie Diaz on the indigenous body in art.
The Politics of the Ostrich: On Pascal Bruckner’s “Un racisme imaginaire: La querelle de l’islamophobie et culpabilité”
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi exposes the real danger of “Un racisme imaginaire” by Pascal Bruckner.
Will We Ever Talk Pretty?: David Sedaris and the American Struggle with Foreign Languages
Colin Marshall contemplates David Sedaris’s experiences with language-learning.
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