Women & publishing, women & translation, publishing women in translation
VIDA has just released a much-discussed report on the ratios of male and female contributors in prominent publications, including, for book reviews, percentages of books by men and women reviewed. At...
View ArticleRevenge of the Maximalists
Blog-calm restored. Turns out that our lovely Minimalism theme was breached. All is well now. Stay tuned in the next couple days for an essay about Adania Shibli’s Touch from translator Paula Haydar.
View ArticleNew review of Touch in the Quarterly Conversation
If you haven’t already, head over to Quarterly Conversation to enjoy the new issue (and I say that not only because there are several pieces on books we’ve edited). As always, it’s a wide-ranging,...
View ArticleAdania Shibli at “The Collagist”
The newest issue of the great online magazine The Collagist features an excerpt from Adania Shibli’s soon-to-be-released We Are All Equally Far from Love: Yesterday, while it was still fine and hadn’t...
View ArticleAdania Shibli, “On East–West Dialogue,” at the Kenyon Review
Good news comes in pairs? Adania Shibli’s new novel We Are All Equally Far from Love is now out in the world, and today the Kenyon Review Online has published one of my favorite essays by Adania—or...
View ArticleWe Are All Equally Far from Love “demands to be read”
The New York Journal of Books has just reviewed Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love (translated from the Arabic by Paul Starkey). According to reviewer Viv Young, this is “not a book to be...
View Article“Fevered bodies, purloined letters”
A thoughtful review of Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love, translated by Paul Starkey, appears in today’s Daily Star: Eight years ago, when the Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli was...
View ArticleAdania Shibli in NYC next week
Adania Shibli, author of Touch and the newly released We Are All Equally Far from Love, will be at two events in New York next week, hosted by ArteEast. On April 24, at the Center for Palestine Studies...
View ArticleAdania Shibli, “a formally brilliant literary artist”
That’s Words Without Borders on Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love, in “faultless translation” (their words!) by Paul Starkey. A fantastic review by Emma Garman—example: Seamlessly...
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“Dark, beautiful exploration of the human psyche”—on Adania Shibli
Writing in the Electronic Intifada, Sarah Irving offers a wonderful new review of We Are All Equally Far from Love: “If her first novel, Touch, wasn’t evidence enough, Adania Shibli’s second book We...
View ArticleAdania Shibli at the PEN World Voices Festival
We’re excited to share that Adania Shibli will join Randa Jarrar and Najwan Darwish for “All That’s Left to You: Palestinian Writers in Conversation,” as part of the PEN World Voices Festival:...
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