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📖 Lichtenberg 世界文学日报 - 2026年04月04日
🌎 美洲文学
The New York Review of Books
- Novels of the Future
“Difficile est saturam non scribere: if you’re paying attention to present conditions, it’s difficult not to write satire,” writes Aaron Matz, quoting the Roman poet Juvenal, in a review of Dan Sperrin’s State of Ridicule from our March 26, 2026, issue. Unfortunately, litera...
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- The Aging Class
Retirement, like so much of the American economy, is a broken system that benefits private interests and exploits the most vulnerable people....
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- A Devotee of Deception
In Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea, an elderly writer looks back across a life in which he has always sought distance and control rather than passion....
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- Heaven’s Elegist
Alfred Tennyson's poetry addressed the central anxiety of his day: how to live in a world where scientific discoveries were slowly replacing religious faith....
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- Psalm 121
From the prohibition against representation that binds the globe in images.From that blue sea from which like whips my help will cometo mend me nameless to this rock the world that I may see you,my Lord. Who once misfit the eye as mere prosperity,the glare that causes objects. Who once ...📷
Paris Review - Interviews
- The World of Aramco
“Over the years, it evolved into a charming and slightly bizarre enclave of print media, combining the recondite trivia of an almanac with the effortful style of the classical general-interest magazine, like Life.”...
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- A Bubbly Ambivalence. . .
New books by Roland Betancourt, Ananda Devi, Patrick Radden Keefe, Ben Lerner, Jay McInerney, Chelsey Minnis, and Francesc Tosquelles....
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- The Wuthering Heights of Edna Clarke Hall
“I lived the characters of Heathcliff and Catherine myself, I simply was them,” she explained. “It was something that had come to pass in a deeply unconscious way. I just had to draw Wuthering Heights.”...
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- In the Ring with Frederick Wiseman
“ ‘Is Frederick Wiseman, like, Frederick Wiseman?’ I asked Richard. Frederick Wiseman was indeed Frederick Wiseman: in his late seventies and shooting his thirty-eighth film.”...
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- Sunday at La Bombonera
“On its biggest days, football comes down to contempt, and nobody hates each other more than Swine hate Lepers.”...
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Literary Hub
- Lit Hub Weekly: March 30 – April 3, 2026
Kelsey Rexroat investigates the super-readers who log hundreds of books a year. | Lit Hub Craft The very important history of the very important pickle: “Whether it’s through jokes, viral trends, or tongue-in-cheek pickle merchandise, pickles have become a lighthearted...
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- This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
It’s April on the east coast, and we’re starting to get glimpses of beauty amid the chilled damp. Everyone knows Eliot’s description of April as the cruelest month: “Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.” I feel you, brother....
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- Is JD Vance stealing his book titles from bell hooks?
As the internet noted earlier this week—and Claire Guinan at Jezebel observed yesterday—Vice President JD Vance may have a plagiarism problem. (Among his many others.) On Tuesday, the man with the most hillbilly blood on his hands announced a new...
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- The Corrections is finally coming to Netflix.
Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attempted to lasso that late modernist moon for a much-hyped HBO mini-series...
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- One great poem to read today: Tracy K. Smith’s “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”
This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of...
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The Atlantic - Books
- Unconventional Novels About Conventional People
In some great books, readers watch a character become disillusioned with their dreams of joyful conformity....
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- What Tracy Kidder Stood For
His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives....
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- Will People Ever Stop Eating Animals?
Bruce Friedrich has devoted his life to reducing American meat consumption—and he isn’t giving up just yet....
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- How Long Can You Live Your Ideals?
Stories about revolutionaries seem to entrance readers and moviegoers alike—especially if they don’t end well....
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- Following
A poem...
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NPR Books
- 'London Falling': A teenage imposter, an aging gangster and a body in the Thames
In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler leapt towards the River Thames from a fifth-floor luxury apartment in central London. Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the story of the teen's double life in a new book....
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- Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what we do — and still don't — know about pain
"Pain is a mysterious thing," says neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. But understanding how it works in the body and different kinds of treatment can help you find the right pain relief when you need it....
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- 'Stay Alive,' about daily life in Nazi Berlin, shows how easy it is to just go along
Historian Ian Buruma chronicles the lives of ordinary Berliners — including his own father — during World War II. Stay Alive is about the past, but has powerful lessons for the present....
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- The oil industry is betting big on plastics. Here's what that means for the future
Journalist Beth Gardiner says the fossil fuel industry is increasingly reliant upon plastic products. Her book is Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil's Biggest Bet....
- 6 books named finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize
The shortlisted titles include novels and novellas from authors and translators spanning four continents, with stories that range from Japanese-controlled 1930s Taiwan to the streets of Tehran in 1979....
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Quill & Quire
- Ben Ladouceur, Trish Salah, and Joshua Whitehead named Dayne Ogilvie Prize finalists
Three poets have been nominated for the 2018 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.
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- Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home anthology wins 2018 Kobzar Literary Award
- Shortlist announced for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award
The nominees for the 2017 Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award include Sydney Smith and Gabrielle Grimard.
- Tanya Talaga wins RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers
Toronto journalist Tanya Talaga has won the RBC Taylor Prize for Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (House of Anansi Press).
- Gary Geddes wins Writers’ Union Freedom to Read Award
Author, poet, and translator Gary Geddes has been awarded the 2018 Freedom to Read Award.
Latin American Literature Today
- Co-Translating All That Dies in April: A Conversation between Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee
All That Dies in April, a novel by Argentine writer Mariana Travacio, was published in English by World Editions in September 2025, in co-translation by Will Morningstar and Samantha Schnee. In this conversation, Samantha and Will discuss the surprises and challenges of this team effort, the benefit...
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- “The classics are old dogs, affectionate ones”: A Conversation with Antonio Rivero Taravillo
In the work of Antonio Rivero Taravillo (1963–2025), literature occupies a central place. Novels such as Los huesos olvidados, Los fantasmas de Yeats, and 1922 offer clear proof of this. He received the Antonio Domínguez Ortiz Prize for his study of the life of Juan Eduardo Cirlot and the Premio Com...
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- A Poem for Berta Cáceres
March 3, 2016 We grieve for Honduras Like the twin sister Who suffers at the same time as the heart We grieve Because we carry a sea of blood that unifies us Because for every thorn that wounds us Grandparents parents And siblings bleed. It breaks our soul To know that foreign gunpowder Keeps explod...
- The Irreparable, translated by Paul Filev
These “stories are deft and quietly (and sometimes deeply) unsettling, and the sense of the characters’ lostness is at once palpable and relatable.” — Brian Evenson The Irreparable is a collection of six stories by Venezuelan author Gabriel Payares, translated into English for the first time ...
- Even Time Bleeds, translated by Forrest Gander
Even Time Bleeds is a revelatory selection of the work of Jeannette Clariond, a major contemporary Mexican poet known for her sensuous lyricism and philosophical gravity. Translated and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander, this volume gathers poems from across Clariond’s career ...
🌍 欧洲文学
The Guardian - Books
- ‘Enough of this me me me’: Blake Morrison on memoir in the age of oversharing
From sad-fishing on Facebook to sensational Substack revelations – today’s readers don’t have to look far for confessional writing. Is this the end of autobiography?Every day I meet strangers who share intimate details with me. It’s called reading. In a newspaper piece a former sex addict recalls he...
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- The best recent poetry – review roundup
Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland; The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore; The Tree Is Missing by Shannon Kuta Kelly; Dog Star by Michael Symmons Roberts; Horses by Jake SkeetsGoyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland (Jonathan Cape, £13)The 45 unrhymed sonnets in Sprackland’s sixth collection coal...
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- Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’
The author on being inspired by Michael Ondaatje and how Hilary Mantel helped her overcome her aversion to historical figure novels My earliest reading memory
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- Original Sin by Kathryn Paige Harden review – are criminals born or made?
A psychologist delves into the genetics of bad behaviour in a book littered with fascinating scientific findingsIn 2021, the psychologist and writer Kathryn Paige Harden co-authored a paper outlining her research into the genetic patterns linked to a higher risk of developing substance abuse problem...
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- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships
Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tendernessIn the opening pages of The Palm House, London is enveloped in a dust storm blown up from the Sahara. As old friends Laura and Putnam...
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Granta Magazine
- Podcast | Helle Helle
‘I know everything about this place, I remember everything.’
- Running Behind
‘I missed a good portion of the outing and hoped the insult would come across.’
- Things on Places
‘The festoonery interrupts the usual, how things are meant to be.’
- Free Botox
‘I sensed, if you can believe it, that I was being fobbed off.’
- The Complex
‘After much debate in this vein, the students concurred on the idea of the hunger strike – it would be very Gandhian.’
Le Monde des Livres
- Portrait littéraire de César Aira, écrivain argentin célèbre pour son œuvre étourdissante d’invention, dont paraît une anthologie de sept de ses romans
« Les Guérisons miraculeuses du docteur Aira et autres romans », qui comprend sept titres dont cinq inédits, donne un bel aperçu de l’univers et du talent de l’auteur. Décodage en quatre mots-clés....
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- Plus de vingt ans après l’immense succès de son premier roman, « Hell », rencontre avec Lolita Pille, qui signe « Antigone reine », un essai passionné sur la littérature
L’autrice a connu le flux et le reflux de la gloire. Elle s’en est remise, comme l’atteste son riche nouveau livre....
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- « La pensée de Rudolf Carnap met en jeu le statut du langage, la distinction du vrai et du faux, la définition du savoir, les places respectives de la pensée, de la langue et du réel »
La chronique « philosophie » de Roger-Pol Droit, à propos de « La Syntaxe logique du langage », du logicien Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), géant méconnu en France....
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- La philosophe Tamar Ross croise théories du genre et théologie juive pour penser la rencontre tumultueuse entre orthodoxie et féminisme
L’universitaire israélienne appelle au dialogue dans son brillant essai, « Orthodoxie et féminisme. Agrandir le palais de la Torah »....
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- « Christine Jordis offre son amour de la langue anglaise, sa fascination pour l’excentricité et le bizarre, le “nonsense” qui caractérise le roman anglais »
Le feuilleton littéraire de Tiphaine Samoyault, à propos de « Passion anglaise », de Christine Jordis....
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Frankfurter Allgemeine - Bücher
- Judenverfolgung: Ein grenzenloses Versagen
Als die Staatengemeinschaft scheiterte: Susanne Heim hat ein verstörendes Buch über die verzweifelte Suche europäischer Juden nach Schutz und Zuflucht geschrieben....
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- Türkei heute: Das Klima in der Türkei ist aggressiv und vergiftet
In der Türkei haben sich die Menschen in eigenen Realitäten eingerichtet. Die Islamwissenschaftlerin Ceyda Nurtsch zeigt mit Reportagen und Porträts in ihrem neuen Buch, was sie formte und wie man darin lebt....
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- Jill Lepore im Gespräch: „Soziale Medien sind eine Katastrophe für die Menschheit“
Die Harvard-Historikerin Jill Lepore sieht die US-Verfassung im politischen Machtkampf zur Waffe geworden – und hält ein Auseinanderdriften der USA für möglich. Im Gespräch erklärt sie, wie Rechte durch Verwirrung ausgehöhlt werden....
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- Interview über Narzissmus: „In der narzisstischen Welt bleibt es immer eher kalt“
Einer inneren Kälte verfallen, die nach außen schlägt: Thomas Arnold und Thomas Fuchs beschreiben das Welt- und Selbstverhältnis von narzisstischen Menschen. Ein Gespräch....
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- Nassehi über Antisemitismus: Es braucht den Feind, um sich nicht selbst in den Blick nehmen zu müssen
Aus der Perspektive des Systemtheoretikers und unter Einbeziehung kanonischer Texte: Der Soziologe Armin Nassehi sondiert die Frage, an welche gesellschaftlichen Probleme der Antisemitismus ankoppelt....
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El País - Libros
- La novela que reconstruye “el primer genocidio del siglo XX” a través de una Biblia
El libro ‘Hic sunt leones’, de la escritora alemana Katerina Poladjan, reflexiona sobre el origen, la memoria y la trágica historia de Armenia...
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- Oscar Tito, humorista: “Soy gay y cristiano; los cristianos somos muy criticones porque pensamos que todos van a ir al infierno”
El comediante e ‘influencer’ peruano está inmerso en una gira española con un espectáculo caústico e irreverente...
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- El Festival de Pascua de Baden-Baden inicia una nueva era con dos ‘cohetes’ de la clásica
Joana Mallwitz y Klaus Mäkelä, al frente de la Mahler Chamber Orchestra y del Concertgebouw de Ámsterdam, impactan con el ‘War Requiem’ de Britten y la ‘Octava sinfonía’ de Bruckner...
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- Rosalía sin fotoperiodistas
El concierto del pasado lunes en Madrid contó con una anomalía: no se permitió el acceso a los reporteros gráficos...
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- Cameron Winter & Geese: una esperanza para el rock’n’roll
De esa escuela inacabable que dejó The Velvet Underground en Nueva York, se siente a una voz muy reconocible, un tipo de espíritu irredento, cuyo universo, como su forma de cantarlo, oscila entre la crudeza, la súplica y la paranoia tanto en solitario como con su banda...
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🌍 非洲文学
Brittle Paper
- How I Learnt Tenderness | Owen Habel Lwanda | Poetry
It was in the knuckles of my father, thick as ginger roots and scarred by the lathe, learning how to peel a peach for me without bruising the golden give of the fruit. He held the blade —not as a weapon, but as a quiet extension of a subtle hand that parts the outer […]...
- Masobe Books Has Built the App Nigerian Readers Have Been Waiting For
In March, Masobe Books did something that many people in the Nigerian literary space had been asking for without quite knowing how to ask for it. The Lagos-based publisher launched the Masobe App, a mobile reading platform that gives subscribers access to its catalogue of African books at prices cal...
- Call for Applications: African Liberty Writing Fellowship 2026/2027 | Apply by 30 April 2026
African Liberty is accepting applications for its 2026/2027 Writing Fellowship, a paid programme for African writers interested in journalism and opinion writing on issues of liberty, policy, and ideas. The fellowship is open to students currently enrolled in, or graduates of, an African institution...
- Excerpt: Two Poems from Wildfire Verses by Sakiru Adebayo
In August 2023, the McDougall Creek Wildfire tore through the Okanagan region of British Columbia, forcing tens of thousands of people out of their homes and pushing the city of Kelowna into a state of emergency. Among those evacuated was Sakiru Adebayo, Nigerian scholar, critic, and now poet, who t...
- Lọ́unlọ́un Journal is Open for Submissions | Due, 8 May 2026
Lọ́unlọ́un (pronounced /luh-woon-luh-woon/) is a pan-African journal publishing literature rooted in historical events that have shaped Africa. It is open to writers of African descent everywhere, and it pays $50 CAD per accepted piece, on publication. There are two open calls. Fiction is open until...
The Johannesburg Review of Books
- The JRB Fiction Issue! (Vol. 9, Issue 3, December 2025)
Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell •......
- ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’—Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer
Barbara Boswell reviews Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock, a novel saturated with extremes of love and increasingly calamitous climate events. Ice......
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- [Sponsored] Listen to an excerpt from Cursed Daughters—the glittering follow-up to the award-winning bestseller My Sister, the Serial Killer
Cursed Daughters—the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite—is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers! Braithwaite is a Nigerian–British novelist......
- ‘Always in search of uncompromising honesty in a compromised and compromising world’—Kevin Goddard reviews Kelwyn Sole’s latest collection of poetry, What is Owed?
Kevin Goddard reviews What is Owed? by Kelwyn Sole—a poet’s summing up of a life dedicated both to verse and......
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- Can we engage with power without being corrupted by it? Sean Jacobs reviews Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
Sean Jacobs reviews Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, a rich and textured account of Ugandan and postcolonial African politics, and......
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Saraba Magazine
- Whiskey
There will be no nightmares to threaten me with a troop of teeth. No shadows that cling onto walls & heighten all I fear. Tonight, the flesh acknowledges its episodes of panic. How often it has bred a populace of anxieties & silenced the aftermath. I uncork a Jack Daniel’s, nearly fill a...
- Them
First of all, I have changed. I am hearing voices and I know that they are not real. I’ve been smoking too much weed for far too long, and now I have damaged my brain. I have fucked up. I smoke blunts – every day from 5pm until I pass out on the sofa watching […]
- Florence
I did not marry Obadiah for love, even though such marriages were becoming fashionable. I had to get him because Florence had her toji-lined eyes on him. Florence was a better catch. Florence had finished primary school with the White men. My education was aborted at Form Two because I was beautiful...
- Alice
Minutes before entering the bookstore, I stood outside and looked through a large, dim window. My bleary vision scanned the Hot Picks’ section, the Best Sellers’ section, then through and through to all the other visible parts of the bookstore. It was while scanning that I spotted you. Behind me, K...
- The Land of Fables
We lived in the town before it became a city. Before the construction of the lifesaving bridges, which annoyed people so much that they named them Confusion. We lived in the town before 24-hour television. Before the arrival of the internet and mobile phones. Before democracy. Before fila-wearing go...
🌏 亚洲文学
China Daily - Books
- Author Weir takes readers to the moon in Artemis
Andy Weir, author of The Martian, takes readers to another desolate world, but instead of the Red Planet it's the moon, in his new novel, Artemis....
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- Book Boom
The 5th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair attested to growing interest in Chinese publications from local readers and international publishers alike....
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- Sharing economy turns new page with books
From sharing bicycle to sharing car, China's sharing economy has now swept into the book industry....
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- Tencent funds digital library in Kenya
The National Museums of Kenya in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization launched an open digital library for indigenous games funded by the Chinese firm Tencent Holdings Ltd on Monday....
- EU-China Literary Festival promotes cultural communications
The first EU-China Literary Festival was held in Beijing on Tuesday. By inviting 28 award-winning authors from the European Union and China, the festival set out to promote cultural exchanges between the two sides and give insights into the lives, works, and unique character of their literary tradit...
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
- In the Details: Masks, Memory, and Narrative Defiance
"A Mask the Color of the Sky" practices what it clearly laid out: using literature to engage obsessively with colonial details, to challenge them, and to insist on a Palestinian narrative....
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- 2 Arabic Titles on EBRD Literature Prize’s 2026 Shortlist
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) today announced the 10-book shortlist for its 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. The unusual lit prize honors books from nine of the countries in which the Bank operates....
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- Forthcoming April 2026
This month, a novel set in the Egyptian countryside and two big literary anthologies with Arabic work in English translation....
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- A Look Back at ArabLit: March 2026
A look back at March 2026 in Arabic literature and translation....
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- On the Field of Arabic Studies
Translator-scholar Jonas Elbousty talks with Roger Allen about his journey in the field of Arabic Studies....
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📚 文学理论与批评
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