Mona Kareem
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Mona Kareem on her father’s obsessive devotion to amassing an expansive personal library in Kuwait:
www.thebeliever.net/the-labyrinth/
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The Labyrinth - Believer Magazine
When it came to books, my father had absolutely no shame. On his first day at the ten-day Kuwait International Book Fair, he’d pile stacks of books at a publisher’s booth and ask him to keep the books...
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September 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Mona Kareem on her father’s obsessive devotion to amassing an expansive personal library in Kuwait:
www.thebeliever.net/the-labyrinth/
www.thebeliever.net/the-labyrinth/
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February 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Munro is drenched with complicity, against her most dear people, but there's even darker truths: how she used her writing to disassociate, to turn harm to fiction, how her parents formed her psyche with constant beating and humiliation.
Alice Munro’s partner sexually abused her daughter. Rachel Aviv writes about how the open secret tore the family apart—and how Munro turned her child’s abuse into fiction.
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
www.newyorker.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Munro is drenched with complicity, against her most dear people, but there's even darker truths: how she used her writing to disassociate, to turn harm to fiction, how her parents formed her psyche with constant beating and humiliation.
Osama Manzlaji, one of the great warriors of Arabic translation, passed away yesterday. He translated 100 works from English, including books by Joyce, Woolf, Paul Auster, Salinger, Henry Miller, Terry Eagelton, Tennessee Williams, Anais Nin, Coetzee. Rest in power, what a loss for us.
February 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Osama Manzlaji, one of the great warriors of Arabic translation, passed away yesterday. He translated 100 works from English, including books by Joyce, Woolf, Paul Auster, Salinger, Henry Miller, Terry Eagelton, Tennessee Williams, Anais Nin, Coetzee. Rest in power, what a loss for us.