Looking for your next powerful read? Discover how Elif Shafak’s There Are Rivers in the Sky, Tahmima Anam’s Uprising, and Carolina Pihelgas’s The Cut Line offer hope in a world defined by chaos and instability. Continue reading The Quiet Rebellion: On Hope, Despair, and How the 21st-Century Novel Offers a Way Out
As I think these thoughts now, I’m also wondering whether Ernaux would call them real because I’m not so sure. Continue reading Another Summer Gone: Paris, the Realness of Thoughts & Ernaux’s The Years
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Sure, I had the privilege of choosing to leave my homeland, but how much of that choice was really mine to begin with? Continue reading Dear Europe: I Promise I’m Not Staying (On Having a Turkish Passport & Nazlı Koca’s Novel The Applicant)
How many of us, “congenial spirits” are left out there, as Woolf writes in The Voyage Out (1915), “feel[ing] intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” Continue reading “Ravens, Cream, solitude, sublimity”: Virginia Woolf on Literature & Inner Peace
Lefteri approaches her characters’ vulnerability in such a gentle, graceful way that the novel feels heart-warming and hopeful despite the horrifying reality millions of people worldwide face today. Continue reading Finding Beauty ‘In Our Times of Greatest Love and Greatest Fear’: The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
Perhaps I’ll soon have the capacity to see the silver lining in my experiences that marked the month of March; for now, I certainly know that March has emphasized the importance of good friends and books, as well as cats of course, yet once again. Continue reading A Season of Rest & Chaos | February-March 2021
The Stationery Shop is not merely a love story; it is part of recorded history, a cautionary tale, if you will. Continue reading ‘What is Time?’: A Review of The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali |Iran
Folklorn is a contemporary origin story that seamlessly weaves Korean folklore within a narrative of identity, migration, and home. Continue reading ‘A more narrowly defined culture-bond syndrome’: A Review of Folklorn (2021) by Angela Mi Young Hur
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