topic: book review
November 15, 2012
Fittingly, Alexandra Fuller begins Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness with a story of her vibrant mother, Nicola Fuller, taking...
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October 11, 2012
The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical...
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September 20, 2012
Binyavanga Wainaina occupies a prominent place in contemporary African literature. A recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and...
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August 31, 2012
Julie Wakeman-Linn immediately plunges her readers into the chaos and violence of 1990’s Zimbabwe in Chasing the Leopard, Finding the Lion...
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August 7, 2012
A theorization of the present is often a thankless task. The combined forces of serendipity, human agency, and political jockeying tend to...
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June 6, 2012
Unsurprisingly, given the conflict being reported in Syria today, Fadi Azzam’s debut novel Sarmada has been heralded, in certain literary...
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May 24, 2012
James Baldwin once referred to love as a kind of war that forces you into growing up. In Aminatta Forna’s transcendent novel, love is just...
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May 10, 2012
Instead of creating a fairy-tale ending, the discovery of oil in the Niger delta produced a complicated political, social, and...
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March 9, 2012
It is one of the ironies of contemporary publishing that Roberto Bolaño, author of 2666 and The Savage Detectives , is marketed as a...
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