Books Archives

We're not quite at "Fahrenheit 451" where books in pyres are burned in public, but our freedom to read faces significant threats.

15 May, 2025 • TMR

May 15, 2025 is the 77th commemoration of the Nakba, the day in 1948 that Palestinians suffered their worst catastrophe up to that time.

25 October, 2024 • TMR

Film and photography festivals, concerts, art, standup comedy, lectures...TMR World Picks run the gamut and are selected by our editors.

31 May, 2024 • TMR

TMR editors highlight their picks of events, books, films, podcasts and other cultural products from around the globe.

24 November, 2023 • TMR

The editors of The Markaz Review recommend several of the best cultural events happening now around the world.

17 July, 2023 • Youssef Rakha

Youssef Rakha is more interested in what it means to be a contemporary Arab-Muslim independently of the West than an American Arab.

29 May, 2023 • Rana Asfour

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.

1 May, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa finds unexpected tastes, pleasures and upsets at the 2023 London Book Fair.

2 April, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Our top picks on what to read from Qatar.

15 June, 2022 • Hanif Kureishi

The author of the story collection "Love in a Blue Time" weaves a dystopian tale of migrants, love and literature.

13 December, 2021 • Ángeles Espinosa

Selling off your beloved book collection to pay the rent hurts, but it beats starving or being out on the street.

15 October, 2020 • Melissa Chemam

The novelists and essayists discuss these difficult times, the rise of neo-fascism in India and the U.S., and "What Lies Ahead."