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Review: Yasmine El Rashidi on Sonallah Ibrahim & Ahmed Naji
Two Egyptian writers’ spin on the Arabic tradition of the literary diary
Marina Warner’s Quarantine Diary
Sei Shonagon was a Japanese writer in the tenth to eleventh centuries who served in the entourage of the empress in Kyoto.
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Forest Education (Part One)
Jacket illustration by Elisa Talentino for Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree
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Diary: Lucille Clifton Remembers
“Walking from New Orleans to Virginia,” Daddy would say, “you go through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
Diary: Michael Robbins, On Rilke
I was reading a thriller by Lisa Unger the other night when I started thinking about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Diary: Luis J. Rodriguez, A Writer‘s Journey (Part Two)
Kids at the Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural Winterlandia festival in December.
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Ann Kjellberg
Diary: (2) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights, 1934
Illustration from Arabian Nights, 1934. Still from Heat Lightning (1934)
Diary: Sven Birkerts
The Flaneur
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Diary: Octavio Solis, Sam Beckett and I
Isolated by the pandemic, a playwright finds renewal in an unexpected place
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Diary: Kathryn Davis on National Velvet
Beauty and power—if you don’t possess these qualities yourself, you look for them elsewhere. In the case of Enid Bagnold, you become a writer.
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Diary: Patricia Storace, A Christmas present
Here is a Christmas present for you to open: Lillian Smith’s Memory of a Large Christmas.
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Ann Kjellberg
Diary: (1) Geoffrey O‘Brien, Arabian Nights of 1934
Illustration from Arabian Nights 1934. Strand Theater, Lansing, Michigan, 1941. Photographer unknown
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