Muhammad El-Hajj’s ‘Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats’
“You’re going to leave, and I won’t have anyone to cry or go hysterical with,” I said after we’d caught our breath.
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Protected: Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘Better Ways’
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Muhammad al-Hajj’s ‘An Eye for an Eye’
I could see that she had been crying. Was it the first time, maybe? No, she had cried at our wedding. But who wouldn’t cry on their wedding day, anyway? Well, Huda, maybe.
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders Editorial Fellowship
“The application deadline is April 15, 2020.”
‘Nights Bot’ & 6 More Literary Distractions
“a mighty man brought low”
Friday Finds: ‘Dispatches from the Black Gulf by Momtaza Mehri’
“Housed here, these works were a lot closer to where they had been conceived and created than in London, New York or Berlin. Unlike the fate of their creators, theirs was a more survivable kind of exile. At least that’s what I kept telling myself.”
Works by Etel Adnan, Sinan Antoon, Khaled Khalifa Make 2020 BTBA Longlists
The Best Translated Book Awards today named its 2020 longlists for fiction and poetry.
Bulaq 46: ‘A Woman Shaped by Fear’
In “A Woman Shaped by Fear,” we talk about the Wannous’ haunting novel, in lucid, vibrant translation by Jaquette.
New Online Translated Fiction Book Club: Starts Today
Five small presses are kicking off a shared, Zoom-centered, international book club today.