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Mekkawi Said translated by Adam Talib American University in Cairo Press ($22.95) by M. Lynx Qualey Author Nicholas Delbanco has said that one could precisely

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Orhan Pamuk translated by Maureen Freely Knopf ($28.95) by Joshua Willey “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.” So Kemel, the narrator

Wang Gang translated by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan Penguin ($15) by Lucas Klein English is a coming-of-age novel. As such, it hits many of

Stacia Saint Owens Livingston Press ($15.95) by Charles Dodd White There’s blood and bile but also weird beauty in Stacia Saint Owens's debut collection of