Luke Leafgren

Dec 11, 2024 | thisweekthosebooks.substack.com | Aaron Y. Zelin |Ulf Laessing |Luke Leafgren |Rashmee Roshan Lall

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Apr 30, 2024 | bookshop.org | Luke Leafgren

"[Abu Srour's] experience might be difficult to imagine but for the extraordinary memoir he has written, translated into lyrical prose by Luke Leafgren...Abu Srour's humanity shines through, even as he endures an incarceration with no end in sight...It is this poetic sensibility that brings freshness to the telling of the well-rehearsed story of this long-running conflict: we see it anew." --The Guardian "Nasser Abu Srour doesn't allow his long incarceration in an Israeli prison to break his...

Jun 21, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Luke Leafgren

Shalash the Iraqi by Shalash, translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren, And Other Stories, 2023Anonymity fascinates and seduces. Endless speculations have circled invasively around who Elena Ferrante “truly” is; Catherine Lacey’s recent Biography of X reckons with erasing a layered past with a single letter of the alphabet; the first season of Bridgerton, the hit Regency-era romance on Netflix, has its narrative engine propelled by the question of Lady Whistledown’s real identity.

Jun 21, 2023 | asymptotejournal.com | Luke Leafgren

Shalash the Iraqi by Shalash, translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren, And Other Stories, 2023Anonymity fascinates and seduces. Endless speculations have circled invasively around who Elena Ferrante “truly” is; Catherine Lacey’s recent Biography of X reckons with erasing a layered past with a single letter of the alphabet; the first season of Bridgerton, the hit Regency-era romance on Netflix, has its narrative engine propelled by the question of Lady Whistledown’s real identity.