August 2021 – Writing in the Margins

Book review The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Palestinian writer Akram Musallam, forthcoming by Seagull Books. English Translation: Sawad Hussein. An excerpt from my review of the novel, published in The Markaz Review: Akram Musallam’s novel, The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion, originally published in Arabic in 2008, is a meditation on loss, absence,Continue reading “Memory, Loss, and Absence in Akram Musallam’s novel The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion”