That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an irony that...

We are Seela and Sidra, we are just children, twin sisters surviving in Gaza. We write this with the help of our buddy, Sister Claudia. Because we ourselves have trouble finding the words to understan...

Aria Aber’s exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin’s nightworld.

Poet Aria Aber’s debut novel Good Girl , set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true. But really at its heart it is a book of self-making and unmaking, ...

Aria Aber's debut novel, 'Good Girl,' reflects the growing chasm between east and west, the same divide that fuels xenophobia in Europe and the United States.

Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated

“Fountains of alcohol and cigarettes are on the horizon, winking at me.”