January 28, 2016
Their life in Belgium already seemed like something that happened to someone else. Sometimes, Agu and Prosperous spoke of it, not of...
blog
November 8, 2015
Albert Camus on Nihilism Interview with Albert Camus at a football game Camus Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Reviews
October 26, 2015
Early this year I returned to northern Uganda during the dry season and was reminded of the pervasive nature of dust, the way it defines...
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September 17, 2015
Translated from the French by Bhakti Shringarpure. There is a peculiar situation in the Francophone world in which books only travel from...
podcast
September 2, 2015
“Because it was a competition thing, I never got to sign off on the book,’ says author Andrew Miller in response to why he chose the name...
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August 31, 2015
Suicide bombings and political instability has long been the news coming out of Mogadishu, Somalia. But for three days in late August, it...
Literature
August 14, 2015
Sri Lanka, 2009: Reflections on Eastern Muslim Survival at the Close of the War May 2009 marked the end of nearly thirty years of civil war...
podcast
August 8, 2015
The Hargeysa International Book Fair takes place yearly in August with writers from Somaliland, Somalia and the far-flung Somali diaspora...
Reviews
July 6, 2015
The Indian novels written in English that Western readers are most familiar with have been referred to as “the sari and mango novels” by...