To Read Is to Fly
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
― Alberto Manguel
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Love and Loss in 3/4 Time: A Review of Trabal's Waltz
My review of Francesc Trabal's Catalan classic Waltz, just published at 3:AM Magazine.
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The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter
The Relic Master: A Novel
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Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World (Material Texts)
Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
In Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages
Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature
