Author name: Graciela Newman

Zarqa al-Yamama, (the Blue-Eyed Woman of Yamama) is a legendary pre-Islamic Arab woman, a Cassandra figure, renowned for her extraordinary intuition and her ability to perceive what others could not. Her tribe’s enemies, fearing her penetrating gaze, devised a cunning plan: they camouflaged themselves as trees. Yet, Zarqa saw through their deception when she noticed

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In the sea of endless year-end lists, poetry often seems to get sidelined, or forgotten—or maybe the critics and listmakers just aren’t reading enough poetry in the first place. Which made me wonder—what were the poets themselves reading this year? So I asked some of my favorite contemporary poets about the poems that left the

We all know A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’s 1843 novella about a greedy old man whose miserly ways are changed after being visited by three ghosts, on Christmas Eve. But A Christmas Carol does not stand alone! Article continues after advertisement A Christmas Carol is the most famous example of the nineteenth-century (mostly British) pastime of

It feels wrong to describe Saul Steinberg’s work in words; it simply transcends them. Steinberg called himself “a writer who draws,” perhaps because he didn’t have a language of his own: he disowned his native Romanian when he left for Italy at nineteen, and adopted English when he moved to the United States in his

Awards established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year. Administered by the American Library Association. “Not meant to be a mystery. The strength of Amanda Peters’s novel lies in its understanding of how trauma spreads through a life and a family,

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The end of the year is approaching, the universe is expanding, and the internet is updating—right now, it is mostly updating its Best Of lists. Therefore, per Literary Hub tradition, I now present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all the Best Of lists and count which