The Dial Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems
Fady Joudah
Read three of @MayaAbuAlhayyat’s poems from "You Can Be the Last Leaf" in Issue 3: Reparation: https://t.co/N9zeIO76Fj Translated by Fady Joudah
Paperback, 2018
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems
Wang Yin
Read Wang Yin’s poems from “A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts,” published in our Energy issue: https://t.co/Sc3tacRkx8 (Translated by Andrea Lingenfelter)
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Port of Beirut
Lamia Ziadé
Life following the 2020 port explosion in Beirut is beyond tragic, Lamia Ziadé writes. In her book “My Port of Beirut,” Ziadé weaves together oral records and illustrations of the accident that engulfed the city. Read an excerpt, translated by @EmKateRam: https://t.co/bn4nhsxL1c
Paperback, 2023
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Read three of @MayaAbuAlhayyat’s poems from "You Can Be the Last Leaf" in Issue 3: Reparation: https://t.co/N9zeIO76Fj Translated by Fady Joudah
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Turban and the Hat
Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim’s novel “The Turban and the Hat” (published in Egypt in 2008 and now translated into English) makes a "definitive, if elliptical, statement on Egypt’s colonial encounter," @Sultans_Seal writes in our Reparation issue. Read the review: https://t.co/6IprbOhfG9
Hardcover, 2022
$24.50$12.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Undercover 2: Secrets and Lies
Chontae Cook
Sign up for our newsletter to receive original writing from Dial contributors. In today's email, translator @sleelenfield writes about his first encounter with Shin Hae-uk's poetry and the "distinctive lyrical force" of her poem "Secrets and Lies." https://t.co/J87JntsOqD https://t.co/5BxiaVY2x5
Paperback, 2019
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Linda Kinstler
Congratulations(!!) to @lindakinstler, our Deputy Editor, on winning the 2023 @WhitingFdn Award for Nonfiction for her book "Come to This Court and Cry." https://t.co/PpfcsCpDuf
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Not Miami
Fernanda Melchor
Read an excerpt from Fernanda Melchor’s new book “This Is Not Miami” about the arrival of crack cocaine in Veracruz: https://t.co/gSPieY8Sr1 https://t.co/nNNrj9nPBC
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book