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Tag: Arabic writing

Review: Losing Face by George Haddad

A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, queer, Western Sydney

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Arabic writing, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Lebanon, LGBTIQ, Middle East, Novel, queer, Sydney, Turkey

Review: The Other Half Of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad

A bracing read about modern masculinity.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

Review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)

A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.

Arabic writing, Fiction, Israel, Novel, Palestine, Translation

Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr

The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.

Arabic writing, Australian, Colonialism, Middle East, Poetry

Review: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

Celestial Bodies achieves a kind of literary perfection.

Arabic writing, Man Booker International, Novel, Oman, Translation

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The early 20th Century German biologist Jacob von Uexküll conceived of an animal’s sensory world as its Umwelt. To try to understand an animal’s Umwelt would be like travelling, he said. Ed Yong vividly conjures these other worlds in this majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ interior worlds.
White Noise is Don DeLillo’s version of the US suburban parody-horror, like Edward Scissorhands or Stranger Things or Desperate Housewives. It follows Jack Gladney, a professor and inventor of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college, and his family as they try to extract meaning out of their lives. It’s very droll and often amusing — I particularly enjoyed the parody of post-modernist, post-structuralist disciplines, but also that DeLillo seems to yearn for the meaning these studies invest in things.
I screamed, cackled and winced my way through this delicious collection of short stories.
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