M. Lynx Qualey is the founder of ArabLit.org, a website that brings together translators, authors, publishers, critics, academics, and readers around discussions of Arabic literature in translation. She works as a book critic, reader, editor, and ghostwriter. You can follow her at @arablit.
If you didn't get into Moby-Dick when you read it in school, try it again in Anthony Heald's sardonic audiobook narration.
A math teacher in England is painting charming miniature book covers on stones and hiding them near her local library.
There are more reasons than just the recipes (although the recipes should be enough!) to read these five medieval Arabic cookbooks in translation.
August is WITMonth, a month to read and write about women's books in translation from around the world. Here are 5 ways to participate in #WITMonth.
In third grade, I spent a lot of time in the school library, sitting cross-legged on the ground beside the ...
Feminist libraries are flourishing around the world, from Beirut to Sydney to Glasgow, Scotland.
A 2017 Facebook post in which Anne Rice declares her refusal to be edited is making its viral way around Twitter. But does any novelist really have a "solo voice"?
Five fun African book podcasts in English coming to you from Kenya (x2), Nigeria, Cameroon, and Morocco (plus a grant opportunity for potential podcasters!)
Last November, Ursula Lindsey and I launched a podcast called "Bulaq," about contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa. Eleven episodes later, I've learned a lot.
April is both "Arab-American Heritage Month" and the US's "National Poetry Month." At the intersection of these two spaces, we find some exceptional writing.