Book of Mutter and afterword by Steven G. KellmanBook of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throesand dead calmof grief. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, it is an uncategorisable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence. Zambreno weaves a complex web of associations, relics, and references, elevating the prosaic scrapbook into a strange and intimate postmortem
Lamming reaches far beneath the surface of ethnic difference into the very heart of the processes of perception
Zionists and non-Zionists and Jews and the British Mandate Government
and Denys Johnson Davies reviews David Tresilian’s A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
perhaps the most masterfully elegant and majestic among the living voices of a generation that boasts more than its share of world-class poets
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in Life and Death
that take the reader on a journey from the public world of political conflict to the private space of home
Gilroy lays the past bare as a text for the present
the poetry of Sappho and the travels of Odysseus
Mohja Kahf who writes in English
Elma Napier’s remarkable memoir chronicles her love affair with the wild Caribbean island of Dominica
Lloyd suspects that his grandfather has witnessed an illegal capture of dolphins for the tourist trade and that he has come to harm
