Since our French is not remotely up to the challenge, we are deeply grateful to the wonderfully talented Dorna Khazeni for offering us her translation of the following hil...

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The latest installment of our WWB Book Club is live, in which David Leavitt talks about excerpting The Rebels in his literary journal ...

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Our posts are beginning to show up in the Words Without Borders forum for October's book club on Sándor Márai’s The Rebels.  The fo...

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Caine Prize winner Monica Arac de Nyeko is profiled in the East African Standard, where she reflects on the long road to prominence...

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We'd be remiss, indeed, if we began our weekend without wishing "Hartelijk gefeliciteerd!" to the remarkable Harry Mulis...

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A European Education, Romain Gary's first novel and a MOTEV favorite, sits reproachfully on our to read shelf and every now and then we're struck by the fact that we haven't ...

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Many thanks to The Chronicle of Higher Education for providing an open link to Ilan Stevens's appreciation of One Hundred Years of Solitude on the occasion of its 40t...

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A group of Nobel laureates, including J.M. Coetzee, have met with students in the Middle East to "turn Middle East conflict into a thing of the past."Participants, incl...

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We remember wandering wide-eyed through the lobby of London's Savoy Hotel when we were sixteen, soaking in the history of the place.   If only we'd known at the time that the h...

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Writing for the Telegraph, Alistair Fraser examines Chesil Beach, "the 18-mile stretch of Dorset shingle that has long inspired...

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