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Interesting Times? We Are Well Beyond Them Now

Interesting Times? We Are Well Beyond Them Now

The world appears to be barreling toward an apocalypse that proves, for better or worse, that we are...

25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
The Infrastructure of Truth: A Conversation with Assal Rad

The Infrastructure of Truth: A Conversation with Assal Rad

A historian talks about the reckoning happening now—three years into a genocide—and where we might be headed. 

25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By TMR
The Shadeless Border Gives Voice to Iran’s Kurdish Borderland

The Shadeless Border Gives Voice to Iran’s Kurdish Borderland

This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.

25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
Failures of the Imagination: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

Failures of the Imagination: Twenty-Five Years After 9/11

No matter what Empire would like us to believe, history neither began, nor ended, on September 11, 2001.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Ammiel Alcalay
Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Becoming Free Behind Bars: A Review of Huna

Gripping, heartbreaking, and resolute, this debut memoir affirms the human intellect as a site of resistance.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Yasmine El Rashidi
Better Baruch Spinoza than Meir Kahane?

Better Baruch Spinoza than Meir Kahane?

Age-old tensions illuminate Israel’s profound crisis as it approaches its seventy-ninth birthday.

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
Hear the voices from the Center of the World

Hear the voices from the Center of the World

Secret Kingdoms welcomes Jordan Elgrably, founding editor of The Markaz Review, for a conversation about Arab/Middle Eastern literature...

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By TMR
Cultivating Creative Processes – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Cultivating Creative Processes – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Mai Al-Nakib and Jordan Elgrably offer practical tools writers can use to cultivate creativity in order to produce...

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Selma Tabti
Anthologies for Archival – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Anthologies for Archival – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Join editors, publishers, and writers A. Nabil Wibisana, Jordan Elgrably, and Saoirse Connolly, led by moderator Cassie Lawrence,...

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Selma Tabti
Demystifying Literary Magazines – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Demystifying Literary Magazines – Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

From pitching and submissions to building a sustainable writing practice, join editors, publishers, and writers Jordan Elgrably, Sana...

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Selma Tabti
The Anthropocene Roundtable

The Anthropocene Roundtable

Join Abdelrahman ElGendy, TMR Literary Editor, and special guests on Thursday, September 17, at 1 pm EDT /...

4 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Biswajit Sengupta
 
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