Ocean Vuong explores family trauma, ex-goalkeeper Neville Southall reveals all and Robert Saviano goes back to the mob. The Observer, September 2020 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Ocean VuongVintage, £8.99, pp256 (paperback) The central idea […]
Photographer Obaid AlBudoor embarked on a three-year project to document Sharjah’s landscapes, natural and urban. It is here, he says, that he fell in love with photography. Hadara, September 2020 Obaid AlBudoor can remember the […]
Her Booker Prize-longlisted novel is hard to pin down, but that’s why it’s brilliant. The National, September 2020 The classic images of the American “Wild West,” of horse towns, savage yet beautiful landscapes and dastardly […]
The writer’s extensive historical research leads to a nuanced novel about Benghazi’s complicated experience with slavery. Hadara, September 2020 When the Libyan academic and writer Najwa Bin Shatwan was studying the history of her country, […]
The British author tells us why he chose the fearless Persis Wadia as his heroine. The National, August 2020 Last year British crime writer Vaseem Khan was deep into another one of his enjoyably twisty narratives when […]