When the civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975, Nassim Haddad was running three restaurants. One of them, al-Tannour, was on the road to the airport outside of Beirut. A special oven cooked fresh ...

During the two years of intermittent lockdown, writers had plenty of time to write, a state of affairs that becomes clearer and clearer as books generated by, and written during, the pandemic begin to ...

"I'm writing a comedy about domestic violence." Awkward silence. I didn't know what else to say. "I'm writing about lung cancer!" Or "A great project about watching my beautiful, abusive mom die!" It ...

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