This is the first of two segments featuring Marcia Tiburi. The following interview is an introduction to her life as a writer, scholar, and activist. For the second segment, read the English-translated excerpt of her philosophical treatise […]
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Born in Damascus, Syria in 1968 and now living in Pittsburgh via Chicago, Osama Alomar is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabic al-qisa al-qasira jiddan, the […]
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Hanif Abdurraqib visited City of Asylum in early February to read from his new book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, a collection of essays about A Tribe Called Quest’s rap […]
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It’s not a thriller or a who-done-it. Everyone knows what the crime is, and everyone knows who committed it. The novel is about concealed knowledge, how we become what we carry undeclared.
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There’s the facts, and then there’s the truth
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Having survived a dictatorship, exile, and constant threats to her life, the French-Moroccan journalist is not interested in anything less than liberty.
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Ariana Brown talks about her recent transitions in life and writing.
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