TWO WOMEN WRITERS. TWO CENTURIES. A CREATIVE KINSHIP. In the royal courts of nineteenth-century Rampur, courtesan-poet Munni Bai Hijab captivates the legendary Urdu poet Dagh Dehlvi, who immortalizes her in his verses while inadvertently eclipsing her voice. More than...

At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years,...

Pulau Kalah is a fictional island off the eastern coast of Malaysia. Inspired by Pulau Sibu near Tioman IT’S THE PERFECT ESCAPE… UNTIL THERE IS NO ESCAPE Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and...

The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is the greatest science policy failure in a generation. We knew this was coming. Warnings about the threat of a new pandemic have been made repeatedly since the 1980s and it was...

Arizona shares nearly four hundred miles of international border with Mexico, thirty-six of which are completely unfortified. On one side lies desperation; on the other, opportunity. Tens of thousands of undocumented aliens pass through these thirty-six miles every year,...

“The Story of the Stone” (c. 1760), also known as “The Dream of the Red Chamber”, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin’s magnificent saga, “The Dreamer Awakes”, was carefully edited...

No. 1 in the series Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book...

“Chilean writer Infante’s penetrating English-language debut centers on a woman coping with the challenges of new motherhood while reflecting on her late mother. This slim and subtle work packs a stinging punch.”—Publishers Weekly Motherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling...

Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera, rock-climber Skye discovers the body of a young woman. The body has injuries that suggest a rock-climbing accident, but it’s been found...

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences...