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Cairo, Egypt · CairoWhen awarding the acclaimed Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz [1911-2006] the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the Swedish Academy noted how “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous—[Mahfouz] has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.” The brief, magical vignettes in new posthumous book, I Found Myself: The Last Dreams, translated from the Arabic and introduced by award-winning w…Read Article
Finding Ourselves in Naguib Mahfouz’s Last Dreams: An Interview with Hisham and Diana Matar - Chicago Review of Books
Havana, Cuba · HavanaIn Ivonne Lamazares’s new novel, The Tilting House, two estranged sisters reunite in 1990s Cuba and learn to navigate the scarred landscape of their family and country. In Paladero, a suburb of Havana, teenage orphan Yuri lives with her strict and religious aunt, when a thirty-something artist, Mariela, suddenly arrives from the United States, claiming to be her long-lost older sister. Mariela, exiled to America as a young child, has returned t…Read Article
