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Mariam Sharma Hits the Road is Sheba Karim’s third YA novel, as witty, charming, and fun loving as her first two but with a sharp political bent that distinguishes it[…]
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I’ve read two roundups (here and here) of the spectacle that was the 2018 Jaipur Literature Festival (Jan. 24-28), plus avidly followed the hilarious Twitter handle, JLFInsider, and there was[…]
There was nothing new for me about leaving Syria; separation has always been the defining condition of my relationship to the country. The Home That Was Our Country, releasing in paperback[…]
A post shared by Sheba Karim (@shebakarim) on May 9, 2017 at 2:27pm PDT What do you have to lose? My pride, for one. And that thing we call a[…]
Habits of secrecy are damaging things. Home Fire, longlisted for this year’s Man Booker Prize, is Kamila Shamsie’s much acclaimed seventh novel, and the first of hers I’ve read, though[…]
He narrowed his blindgreen eyes and asked in a slygreen whisper… Arundhati Roy’s second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Knopf), published 20 years after her first beloved debut, The God[…]
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary festival in New York. It has over 50 Bookend events flanking either end of the weekend, and tens of thousands of[…]
I push and I pull I watch and I wait I tire of being the one who wants I don’t have the courage to speak up and take it I[…]
This poetry video shot in Iceland and edited by Josh Steinbauer has Abeer Hoque reading words from her upcoming novel in stories The Lovers and The Leavers, to be launched this[…]
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer. She has held two solo photography exhibitions and is currently working on a novel and a new collection of travel-themed erotic[…]
