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Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد

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"The Singularity is a slim novel of under 130 pages, but the ideas it explores spill beyond its covers and are perhaps much more relevant today than when it was originally published." Areeb Ahmad | اریب احمد reviews Dino Buzzati's prescient sci-fi classic for Strange Horizons

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4/6 of the featured covers do not have the name of the translator/s on them which just goes to show how much work needs to be done and how publishers continue to refuse a most basic demand.

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"Ceasefire" has become the new "two state solution," a mythical end goal that Israel has strategically removed from the drawing board but which staggers on in zombie form as a symbolic gesture of empathy in American politics

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For #WomeninTranslation month, this is what Shabnam Nadiya said about translating: ‘I'm inspired by the diversity and beauty that Bangladeshi writers pour into the river of world literature—and grateful to make a small, joyous contribution to those ever-flowing waters.’

For #WomeninTranslation month, this is what <a href="/nadiya_shabnam/">Shabnam Nadiya</a> said about translating:

‘I'm inspired by the diversity and beauty that Bangladeshi writers pour into the river of world literature—and grateful to make a small, joyous contribution to those ever-flowing waters.’
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If there is one Indian English writer you should be reading, it's Sumana Roy. Here's an exceptional excerpt from her new book Plant Thinkers of Twentieth-Century Bengal. "The stranger is better than dear ones, and the jungle even better than the stranger."

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This headline perhaps doesn't mean it but inadvertently seems to suggest if it was a cow smuggler it would have been okay to shoot them dead.

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It recently came to our attention that Jamaica Kincaid accepted the Dan David Prize and traveled to the Entity to accept the award. In light of this, we have canceled our upcoming workshop about her work. Don’t go down in history a disgrace. apnews.com/article/d80513…