Literature

by John Sifton

June 14, 2013

What does the NSA make of James Joyce? The author finds out the hard way in his imagined brush with US intelligence over the PRISM data-mining program...

The Tuner of Silences

by Mia Couto

One of Africa's most prolific novelists, Mozambique's Mia Couto tells the story of young Mwanito struggling to connect with his pa

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Never Mermaids

by Troy Blacklaws

An excerpt from Troy Blacklaws' post-apartheid novel "Cruel Crazy Beautiful World," exposing tensions rumbling at the heart o

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Through the Branches

by Merlin Ural

A Kurdish girl reminisces about her father and tries to reconcile their relationship in the face of political exile...

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For the Greater Common Good

Aruni Kashyap

A powerful magic realist tale set in rural Northeast India about a family that is inadvertently drawn into longstanding Assam conflict.

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Guban

by Abdi Latif Ega

Abdi Latif Ega, a Somali novelist from Harlem offers an excerpt from Guban, his novel about tension, transition, corruption and clans in wak

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Running with Mother (an excerpt)

by Chris Mlalazi

This extract from Zimbabwean Chris Mlalazi’s new novel provides us with an insight into how it felt to be a villager under seige during thes

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Horses of God

by Mahi Binebine

An excerpt from Moroccan novelist Mahi Binebine's powerful evocation of the life and death of a suicide bomber.

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Nora, like Ibsen’s

by Miljenko Jergović

Miljenko Jergović's vivid short story about the wanderings of a Bosnian refugee in Zagreb, from his new collection.

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How Are You?

by Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy's short story about the early days of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war that led to the creation of Bangladesh.

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Transit

by Abdourahman Waberi

An excerpt from Abdourahman Waberi's sardonic and witty novel about child soldiers from Djibouti.

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Why I Write

by Feroz Rather

Feroz Rather's lyric essay on exile, ideology, violence, Kashmir, America and the act of writing.

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The Meaning of Being Numerous

by Lina Mounzer

An extract from Lina Mounzer's novel about the effects of one car bomb from 1984 Beirut on the lives of three people.

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Night Flow

by Khet Mar

In this short story, Khet Mar remembers her native Burma while exiled in the United States.

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Traitor (an excerpt)

by Shobasakthi (translation by Anushiya Ramaswamy)

This excerpt depicts the 1983 Welikade jail massacre that took place during Sri Lanka's Black July.

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Cul de Sac

by Arif Ayaz Parrey

Arif Ayaz Parrey charts the Indian occupation of Kashmir from a small neighborhood on the banks of the Jhelum river.

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A False Thief

A short story by David L. Lukudu

David L. Lukudu writes about the civil war years in Juba, capital of the recently formed South Sudan.

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Dogs at the Perimeter

an excerpt by Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien's excerpt opens in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia.

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