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Literature

Remembering Lewis H. Lapham

Kira Brunner Don

The American essayist and editor

  • Global
  • Journalism
  • Literature

Khalid

Salar Abdoh

Brotherhood and blindness in the British Empire

  • England
  • Middle East
  • Literature

A Friendship Through Letters

Dr. Siphiwo Mahala

Langston Hughes & Bloke Modisane spent years writing back and forth between the US and South Africa

  • Africa
  • Johannesburg
  • South Africa
  • Literature

Postcard from Oak & Carrollton

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the coffee shop where he writes

  • New Orleans
  • North America
  • United States
  • Culture
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  • Race

Reading for Tehran Streets

photography by Maryam Firuzi

Considering imagination, literature and public space

  • Iran
  • Middle East
  • Tehran
  • Literature
  • Photography

The Street: Bogotá, 1960

Gabriel García Márquez, translated by José Vargas

Never-before-translated vignettes on city-life by a young Gabriel García Márquez

  • Bogotá
  • Colombia
  • South America
  • History
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My Sensational Drama Queen

Julián Delgado Lopera

An ode to Bogotá

  • Bogotá
  • Colombia
  • South America
  • LGBTQ
  • Literature

We asked six influential Texans: What’s next for Texas?

Stranger’s Guide

Dan Rather, Earl Campbell, Adrian Quesada, Lina Hidalgo, Cruz Ortiz and C.K. Chin on the future of the lone star state

  • North America
  • Texas
  • United States
  • Art
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So Long Out of Ireland

Colum McCann

Storytelling as a national tradition

  • Europe
  • Ireland
  • Limerick
  • History
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Feuding Fathers

Jonathan Ali

The legacies of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul

  • Caribbean
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  • St. Lucia
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Readings

Belonging to the Mountains

  • Asia
  • India
  • Literature

Dead and Kicking

Olga Voronina

Writer's haunts—and haunting writers—in Moscow

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Literature
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