March 2014

March 28, 2014

Nigerians in Space, by Deji Bryce Olukotun, is a transnational mystery novel replete with assassins, abalone poaching and an international...

March 26, 2014

Tarnac, a preparatory act is the most recent volume in my cycle of works published in France by Editions du Seuil’s series Fiction et Cie...

March 24, 2014

In a novel that spans over fifty years and crosses borders from India to America to Ireland, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland weaves an...

March 21, 2014

The publication of Clan-cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns has aroused deeply contrasting reactions from...

March 20, 2014

In 1830, in response to the crowning of Louis-Philippe as king of France after revolution deposed Charles X, Russia’s Nicholas I wrote, “...

March 15, 2014

Sam Rainsy’s recent long-winded editorial in the Phnom Penh Post lamenting the negative connotations affixed to the word “yuon,” the Khmer...

March 12, 2014

Is poetry the answer to war? Of all the systems of communication we have, one of the most effective in considering and talking about the...

March 10, 2014

No words could be more pertinent as the ones said by the great Somali writer Nuruddin Farah in his blurb about Yewande Omotoso’s first...

March 6, 2014

March 5, 2011: The Fire Hollowed eyes. Glazed looks. Disoriented and displaced in their own neighborhood. Wandering aimlessly. Clutching at...

March 4, 2014

“People here have washed themselves clean of old ties. You should be doing the same: letting go of old attachments, not pursuing them,”...

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