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Number of articles: 2
First Article: November 3, 2023
Latest Article: October 11, 2024
It’s an odd thing for a writer to come down against the idea of complexity.
Writing lives, as Adam Shatz observed, “in the verbs, not the nouns … in the distance, sometimes the chasm, between words and deeds.” Complicating a …
In 1980, Edward Said approached a New York publisher and suggested that they translate and publish the work of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. The publisher declined. “When I inquired why,” Said later wrote, “I was told (with no …
