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Robyn Creswell

Robyn Cres­well teaches comparative literature at Yale and is the translator, most recently, of Iman Mersal’s poetry collection The Threshold. (February 2024)

Making and Unmaking

Making and Unmaking

The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture

by Susan Stewart

July 2, 2020 issue

‘An Enthusiastick Sect’

‘An Enthusiastick Sect’

Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism

by Alexander Knysh

Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr

by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, translated from the Arabic by Carl W. Ernst

March 7, 2019 issue

Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead

The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de L’Étoile, The Night Watch, Ring Roads

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf, and Frank Wynne

Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort

Such Fine Boys

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Sundays in August

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Damion Searls

Pedigree: A Memoir

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Dora Bruder

by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin

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November 8, 2018 issue

The Seal of the Poets

The Seal of the Poets

The Conference of the Birds

by Attar, translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé

October 26, 2017 issue

Tripoli Nights with a Master of Arabic

Tripoli Nights with a Master of Arabic

Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol

by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Confessions

by Rabee Jaber, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

March 9, 2017 issue

The First Great Arabic Novel

The First Great Arabic Novel

Leg Over Leg, or the Turtle in the Tree: Concerning the Fariyaq, What Manner of Creature Might He Be

by Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, edited and translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

October 8, 2015 issue

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