inji efflatoun
THE LIFE AND WORK OF INJI EFFLATOUN EDITED BY SULTAN SOOUD AL QASSEMI AND SUHEYLA TAKESH MILAN: SKIRA
Missives Impossible
I have an appointment with the twenty-first century,Baldwin tells one interviewer, less than a decade before his death in 1987. I guess I feel like I’m part of that appointment,…
In Search of Lost Stein
DESPITE HER REPUTATION as a long-winded writer, Gertrude Stein had a talent for pithiness. Of Oakland, the town where she grew up, she famously remarked: “There is no there, there.”…
Raising the Bardo
Amie Barrodale’s contemporary book of the dead
Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Tinker Taylor
LITTLE WALTER’S “Blues with a Feeling” is a majestic song whose title is kind of redundant. Blues is a feeling, whether filtered through Hank Williams’s full-moon howling or channeled through…
Reckless Regard
A posthumous collection by rogue anthropologist David Graeber
Theatrical Release
The words are a good description of a first-person narrator, that personage who at least since Jane Eyre has been a spotlight-hogging wallflower. Set in that lineage, David’s vocation is…