“Written by someone who doesn’t care much for plot”

Anjali Joseph (Literary Activism, 11/2021), “Madame Bovary and the Impossibility of Re-reading”: “In a way it’s not a novel about human characters at all: it’s a novel of objects and insects and sunlight and birds, of stains, or habit and repetition. A…

Plainte – Chekoua – Lamentation / Épreuve – Mihna – Hardship

Chris Silver (Gharamaphone): “In May 2020, I posted Sariza Cohen’s stunning recording of ‘أَشْكُوا الْغَـرَامَ’ (Ashku al-gharam) [Soundcloud], released … in 1938. This is the other side of that record [Soundcloud]. It is no less remarkable. Here the…