Until the 1990s, Olga Sedakova’s books were not available in Russia because they failed to align with prescribed official aesthetics. Sampsonia Way presents an excerpt from Sedakova’s forthcoming book, In Praise of Poetry.
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An excerpt from Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard. Set against a backdrop of political uprisings, the novel follows Lakhdar, a young Moroccan, who becomes exiled from his family for his religious transgressions.
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Celebrated author Akhil Sharma discusses his painstaking writing process and careful construct of his latest novel Family Life.
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Robert Darnton’s new book examines the effect state censorship had on literature in Communist East Germany, antebellum France, and 18th century colonial India.
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In Sridala Swami’s second poetry collection, the speaker attempts to navigate the constraints of the bodied self: death and the decay of age, the fragile nature of love and relationships, and the imposition of national borders.
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“My life was deteriorating, and like everyone in our band of children, my hopes of finding our families were diminishing too. There were no signs of them.”
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Ali Cobby Eckermann, a Yankunytjatjara and Australian poet, read at City of Asylum’s 2014 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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