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Literature

Reading for Tehran Streets

photography by Maryam Firuzi

Photographer Maryam Firuzi on Imagination, Literature and Public Space

  • Iran
  • Middle East
  • Tehran
  • Literature
  • Photography

Never-before-translated vignettes on city-life by a young Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez, translated by José Vargas

The Street: Bogotá, 1960

  • Bogotá
  • Colombia
  • South America
  • History
  • Literature

My Sensational Drama Queen

Juli Delgado Lopera

An ode to Bogotá

  • Bogotá
  • Colombia
  • South America
  • LGBTQ
  • Literature

We asked six influential Texans: What’s next for Texas?

Stranger’s Guide

Dan Rather, Earl Campbell, Adrian Quesada, Lina Hidalgo, Cruz Ortiz and C.K. Chin on the future of the lone star state

  • North America
  • Texas
  • United States
  • Art
  • Education
  • Food
  • Journalism
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Public Health
  • Sports

So Long Out of Ireland

Colum McCann

Storytelling as a national tradition

  • Europe
  • Ireland
  • Limerick
  • History
  • Literature

Feuding Fathers

Jonathan Ali

The legacies of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul

  • Caribbean
  • North America
  • St. Lucia
  • Trinidad
  • Literature

Readings

Belonging to the Mountains

  • Asia
  • India
  • Literature

Dead and Kicking

Olga Voronina

Writer's haunts—and haunting writers—in Moscow

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Literature

Readings

Journey to Dragon’s Bridge

  • England
  • Europe
  • United Kingdom
  • Favorite Places
  • Literature

Readings

Moscow Refreshments

  • Europe
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Drink
  • Literature

Did You Know?

Banned Bard

  • Europe
  • France
  • Literature

Readings

The Colonizer’s Field Notes

  • Global
  • Literature
  • Nonfiction
  • Travel

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