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Book Cover for: Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems, Fady Joudah

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems

Fady Joudah
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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
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Book Cover for: A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems, Wang Yin

A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts: Selected Poems

Wang Yin
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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
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Book Cover for: My Port of Beirut, Lamia Ziadé

My Port of Beirut

Lamia Ziadé
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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
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Book Cover for: You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems, Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
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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
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Book Cover for: The Turban and the Hat, Sonallah Ibrahim

The Turban and the Hat

Sonallah Ibrahim
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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
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Book Cover for: Undercover 2: Secrets and Lies, Chontae Cook

Undercover 2: Secrets and Lies

Chontae Cook
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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
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Book Cover for: Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends, Linda Kinstler

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Linda Kinstler
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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
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Book Cover for: This Is Not Miami, Fernanda Melchor

This Is Not Miami

Fernanda Melchor
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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
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