paints a convincing if sometimes unsettling portrait of the poet’s adopted city
Susannah Tarbush In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
a poet known for her fearless and wholly original vocal performances
Horacio Cavallo and Ida Vitale
BANIPAL 49 - A Cornucopia of Short Stories Jerry White paints a convincing if sometimesBANIPAL's first issue of 2014 presents a rich collection of a traditional art stories by 21 authors, writing in a range of styles and selected from all generations of short story writers and from all parts of the Arab world from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Jordan; from Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia; and from Yemen, Oman and Kuwait. From pioneers Zakaria Tamer, Mahmoud Shukair, Ibrahim Aslan, Said al Kafrawi and Ahmed Bouzfour, to Jokha al Harth,