US literature in Arabic
Kalima, a United Arab Emirates project, endeavors to translate more than 100 books into Arabic each year. Suggestions sought.
Kalima, a United Arab Emirates project, endeavors to translate more than 100 books into Arabic each year. Suggestions sought.
Are three novels revised as one a new book? On Matthiessen’s status as NBA finalist for his (excellent) Shadow Country. (Via.)
The incomparable Alan Bennett donates his papers to the Bodleian Library, with gratitude to the “nanny state” that sent him to Oxford on scholarship.
His usual obscene and bitter style…. Mailer’s FBI file contains an agent’s notes on Miami and the Siege of Chicago.
Correspondences author Ben Greenman contends that e-mail is the enemy. Watch for our affectionate yet contentious back & forth on this.