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Among the Splendors
As I read more of Adonis’s work over the years, in the original and in translation, I felt repeatedly that only a large of selection of work could give… More
Wide-Reading, Long-Seeing
As the war drums rumble louder, we might want to take a look, as we engage, at some Iranian poets, some of whom write about their country from within… More
Activist at Heart: A Conversation with South African Cartoonist Zapiro
Zapiro is South Africa’s most celebrated cartoonist. His penetrating cartoons hold the country’s power brokers to account, lampooning everyone from former president Nelson Mandela to the late cricket star… More
Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons: Mesmeric Force
In real terms throughout the Arab world, the reciters of such tales were concerned not with life but livelihood, for their audiences had to he encouraged to return, night… More
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
When his publishing career collapsed, Lehmann turned to America by necessity. He began an itinerant life lecturing on campuses where he could hold forth on his long-lived and impressive… More
The Warmth of Other Suns
There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes… More
Essays from the Nick of Time
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more:… More
PEN Appeal: Maikel Nabil Sanad
November 21, 2011 Director of Military Judiciary Major-General Ahmed Abd Allah Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax: +202 2 402 4468 / +202 2 411 3452 Military General Attorney Major-General Medhat Radwan Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt +202… More
Hocus Bogus
There is no beginning. I was begotten—just like you—and since then I’ve been lumbered. More