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Hala Alyan’s The Twenty-Ninth Year is a deeply intimate poetry collection
Alyan experiments with form as much as with meaning
In Wrong Winds, Palestinian poet Ahmad Almallah asks: Can language convey tragedy?
Almallah refuses to reduce the lives lost in Gaza to mere statistics, exploring the space between the screams of the…
7 essential books to understand Iran’s history and people
📚 During times of war, it can be difficult to track the history of long-standing conflicts — this is where…
In Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman asks: What if men didn’t exist?
Deemed a lost feminist utopia upon its rediscovery and republication in 1979, Gilman’s novel was the subject of much controversy…
How José Saramago rebuilt Plato’s cave in his 2000 classic
Saramago draws inspiration from Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave
Fredrik Backman’s My Friends is an ode to human connection
📚 Fredrik Backman is no stranger to sob stories — in fact, they’re what he does best. Going into his…
In the Language of Miracles asks: what gets lost in translation when you’re far from home?
In the Language of Miracles is a story of grief and loss, yes, but it is also a story of…
The harsh realities of nature in Abdel Rahman Munif’s Endings
📚 Saudi Arabian writer Abdel Rahman Munif’s 1977 work, Endings, stands out among its contemporaries for the seemingly simple choice…
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