New Fiction by Ameer Hamad: ‘All That’s Left to Him’
“There, an angel revealed itself, taking the shape of an image he’d seen in a storybook, when he was younger, back when his mother read him stories about angels.”Continue Reading
“There, an angel revealed itself, taking the shape of an image he’d seen in a storybook, when he was younger, back when his mother read him stories about angels.”Continue Reading
Author Samar Yazbek and translator Leri Price have been longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award in the “Translated Literature” category.Continue Reading
“The no-hair phenomenon certainly has a backstory. “Continue Reading
“At the time of writing the novella, I was preoccupied with a question: Is there is free will? Naturally, this question led to others: And how does it fit in a socially controlled life? How can individuals who arrived to London, not by choice, escape the new constraints?”Continue Reading
“Of course, I do enjoy painting for you, right now, a slightly more calamitous situation than the one I actually face – I blame Algerian fiction’s long love affair with tragedies for my theatrics. But the truth is still harsh.”Continue Reading
We “reclaim” land from water, taking back what was never given / We worship our own footsteps, replacing the water’s sheenContinue Reading
“The next day, he was watching a livestream on television when he saw his dream on the screen. The streets of Beirut were flooded with mounds of garbage. This was the first step, he thought. Next, the piles of rubble would appear, and the people would vanish, leaving the buildings deserted.”Continue Reading
“A study of Coptic school sandwiches – or how to get your mother to make you the best chicken sandwich in the world.”Continue Reading
“Angels don’t cook / Poetry is inedible / What will we eat today? Legends?”Continue Reading
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