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THE FRIDAY OF RAGE: The March to Tahrir Square
By Nagat Ali, Translated from the Arabic by Gretchen McCulloughI woke up on the morning of January 28 a little before Friday prayers.
A Literary Life, Perused
By Corey EastwoodJeff called and told me to get in the van and come to Rhode Island. He was at a professor’s house in the Providence suburbs digging through a massive collection of fiction, film, and philosophy paperbacks.
In Conversation
AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER IN BROOKLYN
ANNA FUNDER with Bec Zajac
The author of the internationally acclaimed nonfiction work Stasiland turns to fiction in order to dramatize the real stories of anti-Nazi activists.
In Conversation
AMONG THE THUGS
TABISH KHAIR with Seb Doubinsky
Tabish Khair worked as a reporter for Indian papers in Bihar and Delhi before moving to Copenhagen, where he painted houses, delivered newspapers, and washed dishes. He eventually completed a Ph.D. in Denmark and went on to become one of the most iconoclastic and prolific Indian English-language writers of his generation.
Of Many Minds
By Kathy SmundakIn her memoir American Gypsy, Oksana Marafioti diagnoses herself with “split nationality disorder” in reference to the internal split she feels when choosing between her Romani identity on her father’s side and her Armenian identity on her mother’s.
Everything Under the Sun
By Liam BuellRobert Hass is a man of deft and vast intelligence, but unlike many writers afflicted with such acute awareness, he has kept his compassion, his open engagement with our world, remarkably intact.
Portrait of the Artist
By Christopher MichelDavid Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest was published my freshman year of college, just as I was discovering the world of contemporary literature and my own desire to participate in it.
Once Upon a Lifetime…
By Geoffrey YoungStephen Tobolowsky is an actor. He is also a radio host, teacher of improv, amasser of trivia, and, one suspects, an enchanting dinner party raconteur. It is, therefore, his nature to seek story.
