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Book Reviews

“Depth of Kinship”: Zeina Azzam’s Some Things Never Leave You

September 10, 2024 |Deema K. Shehabi
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Book Reviews

Into The Abyss with Fernando Vallejo

September 04, 2024 |Kaitlyn Denton
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Interviews

“Wild Text Raging”: A Conversation with Threa Almontaser

September 04, 2024 |Renee H. Shea
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Interviews

Africanish Womanhood, the Body in Between: Esinam Bediako and Itoro Bassey in Conversation

September 03, 2024 |Esinam Bediako, Itoro Bassey
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Book Reviews

Threshing Pain and Passion through Poetry: Gjekë Marinaj’s Teach Me How to Whisper

August 29, 2024 |James Manteith
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Interviews

Exploring the Burning Questions: A Conversation with Cara Lopez Lee

August 28, 2024 |Susan Blumberg-Kason
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Fiction

Lucilla

August 27, 2024 |Anna Voltaggio
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Lit Lists

Perspectives on Walking: A Lit List

August 21, 2024 |James Fawcett, Madeline Meyers
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Interviews

More Than One Life: A Conversation with Lyn Coffin

August 20, 2024 |Alaaeldin Mahmoud
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Book Reviews

Antigone Redux: Janice Weizman’s The Wayward Moon

August 15, 2024 |Jennifer Lang
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On Translation

Can Translation Enrich Our Mental Health?

August 13, 2024 |Veronica Esposito
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Cultural Cross Sections

Letter to Mohamed Choukri: Writing between Silence and Prattle

August 08, 2024 |Mohamed Berrada
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Interviews

Queer-Feminist Writing from 1970s Turkey: A Conversation with Maureen Freely on Sevgi Soysal

August 06, 2024 |Ipek Sahinler
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Book Reviews

Boubacar Boris Diop’s Un tombeau pour Kinne Gaajo: The Value of Memory, Writing, and Translation

August 06, 2024 |Marame Gueye
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Interviews

“Examine Every Atom”: The Capacious Career of Poet, Editor, and Critic T. R. Hummer

August 01, 2024 |Chard deNiord
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Poetry

Two African American Poems

July 30, 2024 |Beth Brown Preston

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