Saleem Haddad: On the Arab Spring and Writing About the Queer Arab Experience
“It was very challenging to write this, about such a sensitive subject as sexuality and shame, knowing that it would be read both by a Western audience and an Arab audience. So I kept telling myself: Just tell the truth.”
A Poem by Francisco Márquez
This week, a poem by Francisco Márquez.
Philip Clark on Unearthing the Poetry of Donald Britton
“If anything, the poems are testament to an eye and a mind that was looking at the world on a different wavelength: there’s a remarkable particularity of language matched with fresh and jarring images.”
‘Night Sweats’ by Tom Cardamone
Short these stories may be, but that doesn’t mean that they’re lightweight
‘Black Sheep Boy’ by Martin Pousson
What Pousson does so masterfully is to take such a dazzlingly fantastical and specific world and render it universally recognizable
Read an Excerpt from Edmund White’s New Novel ‘Our Young Man’
“Although Guy was thirty-five he was still working as a model, and certain of his more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.'”
A Poem by Nathan Blansett
This week, a poem by Nathan Blansett.
‘Our Young Man’ by Edmund White
Edmund White’s new novel examines the costs of maintaining a facade
‘How the Boy Might See It’ by Charlie Bondhus
Charlie Bondhus is haunted by
French, Arabic, English: Abdellah Taïa Discusses His Novels and Why He Uses the Language that He Does
“Though I write now in French, my feelings about this language are very complicated. I am in a constant war with it.”
