Month: July 2013

An interview with editor-translator Philip F. Kennedy

Yesterday, the Library of Arabic Literature blog featured an interview with LAL‘s General Editor, Philip F. Kennedy. In the interview, conducted by literary blogger M. Lynx Qualey, Kennedy explains how the Library of Arabic Literature… READ MORE

The meaning of July 4th

In celebration of the July Fourth holiday, we asked a few of our authors to discuss what Independence Day means to them (a la Beacon Broadside’s awesome blog post for… READ MORE

The barrel of the apartheid gun

—Nadine Gordimer The nobel laureate on Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, a new biography of South Africa’s revolutionary couple, published by Monthly Review Press. [Below… READ MORE

Should Superman kill?

—Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl [This article originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal online. Read it here.] Warning: this essay contains spoilers from the film “Man of Steel.” The reviews on… READ MORE