The publication of Egana Djabbarova’s My Dreadful Body by New Vessel Press earlier this year is an important contribution to feminist russophone literature available to readers in English translati…

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Private land is collectivized; mosques are converted to silk factories or bulldozed to build ‘palaces of culture.’ The young narrator, Sadyk, fantasizes about striding hand-in-hand with a beautiful gi...

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For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols

A dazzling debut novel about a young woman's vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim

Check out My Dreadful Body - <p><span><b>"Gripping, vivid . . . plainspoken and elegiac. I've never read anything like it."—Claire Oshetsky, author of<i> Poor Deer</i></b></span></p><p><span>A…

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

A dazzling debut novel about a young woman's vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim

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