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Feb

2

2018

Omar El Akkad

The Unrooted: An Essay by 2018 PNBA Award Winner
Omar El Akkad

The house where my father grew up is immortalized on an old Egyptian banknote. It’s the 25 or 50 piastre bill, I think, though I haven’t seen one since I was a child and they’ve been redesigned since then. The old bill, if memory serves me correctly, features a drawing of a narrow alleyway in …

Apr

27

2011

The Free World by David Bezmozgis

“Bezmozgis captures the emigrant experience perfectly while telling a moving story. In the 1970’s a small crack opened in the Iron Curtin surrounding the Soviet Union. Jewish families headed through the breach into new lives in the West. The Krasnansky family brings three generations to live in a strange new land. Samuil, the patriarch, was …