James Baldwin at 100!
Today: one book & one book only: “The Collected Essays” of James Baldwin, who was born on this day 100 years ago. I opened the book at random to the following sentence, underlined in...
Category: Intellectuals
Reading Against Anti-Semitism
On Sunday 2.18.24 “A Poetry Reading in Response to Antisemitism” was held at The Museum of Jewish Heritage here in New York. Cultural critic and keynote speaker Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen: How They Rise, Why...
Remembering Mourid: 10 in Translation, Online
With thanks to the ever excellent & useful ArabLit for this compilation: On February 14, poet and memoirist Mourid Barghouti died in Amman, Jordan, having spent most of his life in various exiles: Below,...
Thinking of Abdelwahab Meddeb…
… the great Tunisian poet, writer, essayist & translator who would have turned 75 today. A good friend for several decades, I learned much from him about the literature & culture of the Maghreb...
Safaa Fathy: Souffler un autre esprit / Breathe another spirit
Egyptian/French poet, filmmaker & philosopher Safaa Fathy gives a reading/talk in the context of “Philosopher en temps d’épidémie” with English subtitles. also check out:
Poet Galal El-Behairy’s ‘Letter from Tora Prison’
via ArabLit: Ahead of the expected verdict for imprisoned Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy, ArabLit — like PEN centers around the world — is sharing a work El-Behairy wrote in prison: El-Behairy was arrested more than...
PJ interviews Yamen Manaï re his novel “L’amas ardent” @ Albertine
A short English presentation of the novel can be seen here as L’amas Ardent in a few words.
Eric Mottram Remembered: poet, professor and cultural firebrand
We are pleased to present the following conference, alongside an exhibition of manuscripts, books and digital material relating to Eric Mottram. Sponsored by the Archives Department at King’s College London. Date: Monday 23 April...
Juan Goytisolo – Tangier, Havana and the Treasonous Intellectual
Wow! Two days in a row I’m reposting Arab Lit (in English). Today Marcia Lynx Qualey brings up (& sends us to a dossier on) one of my very favorite Spanish-born Maghrebi-by-choice writers: Juan...
Hannah Arendt’s “On Revolution”
It seems useful at this point in time to remind ourselves of some of Hannah Arendt thinking — thinking that here turns around the American revolution, its political system & constitution.
“Todesguge/Deathfugue”
“Interglacial Narrows (Poems 1915-2021)”
“Always the Many, Never the One: Conversations In-between, with Florent Toniello”
“Conversations in the Pyrenees”
“A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly.” Edited by Pierre Joris & Peter Cockelbergh
“An American Suite” (Poems) —Inpatient Press
“Arabia (not so) Deserta” : Essays on Maghrebi & Mashreqi Writing & Culture
“Barzakh” (Poems 2000-2012)
“Fox-trails, -tales & -trots”
“The Agony of I.B.” — A play. Editions PHI & TNL 2016
“The Book of U / Le livre des cormorans”
“Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan”
“Paul Celan, Microliths They Are, Little Stones”
“Paul Celan: Breathturn into Timestead-The Collected Later Poetry.” Translated & with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus & Giroux