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Mazen Maarouf brings magical realism to the darkness of war

  • ‘Jokes for the Gunmen,’ on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize, has been translated into English by Jonathan Wright and published by Granta Books.
  • It was published in Arabic by Beirut’s Riad El-Rayyes Books in 2015.
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What We Are Reading Today: The Less People Know About Us

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What We Are Reading Today: Self-Portrait in Black and White

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What We Are Reading Today: Barack and Joe

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Book Review: ‘But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim’ — an exploration of Indian-Muslim identity

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What We Are Reading Today: No Stopping Us Now by Gail Collins

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What We Are Reading Today: Free for Life by Christopher Lee Maher

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Book Review: ‘A Sky So Close to Us’ transports readers to the Syria of yesteryear

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What We Are Reading Today: The Slow Moon Climbs by Susan Mattern

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What We Are Reading Today: Saving America’s Cities by Lizabeth Cohen

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What We Are Reading Today: Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair

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What We Are Reading Today: Widen the Window

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