Summer Reads: ‘The Crime of Translation’
“But in a broader sense, crime as transgression takes in a spate of ideas, images, and conceits from Arabic literature.”
Abu Nuwas
Summer of Lock-in Lit: Cartooning with Popeye & Curly
“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea in my head. Other times I ravage entire books looking for the spark of a joke. I have read more widely on the subject of medieval Baghdad this spring and summer than I have since grad school, and this has been time very well spent.”
‘Heal Me with Disease’
“I’m wrong? Please. / I’m ill? Heal me with disease.”