Stories By Elinor Teele
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Egypt
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
May 10, 2020Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
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Fiction Reviews
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
May 7, 2020In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
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China
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
May 7, 2020In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
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Crime Fiction
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
May 4, 2020A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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Caribbean
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
May 3, 2020This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
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Biography
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
April 30, 2020The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...