Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

• Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline

  Randa Abdel-Fattah’s new novel Discipline is set in Sydney, Australia in 2021 during Ramadan. Discipline follows two Palestinians there, one in media and one in academia, where each has to confront questions of silence and complicity in their respective fields. As Israel intensifies its bombardment of Gaza, and as an eighteen-year-old student at a local Islamic […] The post Randa Abdel-Fattah : Discipline appeared first on Tin House.

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• Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords

  Jorge Luis Borges called her the “Tolstoy of Mexico” and César Aira the “greatest novelist of the 20th century,” so why is it likely that you haven’t read or even heard of Elena Garro before now? And given that Garro was, like her fantastical stories,  not beholden to the truth when accounting her own life, […] The post Jazmina Barrera : The Queen of Swords appeared first on Tin House.

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• Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison

  Caren Beilin’s first appearance on the show, in 2022 to discuss her book Revenge of the Scapegoat, was so unforgettable, and spurred so much enthusiasm and electrifying conversation in its wake, that I couldn’t say “no” to being in conversation with her again, this time live at Powell’s Bookstore, to discuss her latest book Sea, Poison […] The post Tin House Live : Caren Beilin : Sea Poison appeared first on Tin House.

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• Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes

  Painter Stephen Hayes latest exhibition, “Elegy,” consists of twelve abstract paintings that engage with the genocide in Gaza. One of the twelve paintings was created while listening to the Between the Covers conversation with Omar El Akkad about his book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Because of this, instead of asking, […] The post Tin House Live: Stephen Hayes appeared first on Tin House.

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• Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire

  Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C.P. Cavafy began as a collaborative multidisciplinary project between the poet Robin Coste Lewis, the composer Vijay Iyer, the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and the visual artist Julie Mehretu. This multimedia quartet traveled to Athens together to engage with the Cavafy archives as part of the composition of […] The post Robin Coste Lewis : Archive of Desire appeared first on Tin House.

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