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Leona Naess - "All is Fair"
the everybodyfields - "Worth Keeping"
The Low Anthem Covers All the Bases
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Iraqi treasure rediscovered It’s easy to understand why Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Last of the Angels was banned in his native Iraq when first published in 1992. His vision of Kirkuk in the ’50s is more than darkly comic: a place where Arabs, Turks, Kurds and Assyrians hate each other almost as much as the living hate the dead, and everyone is looking for a miracle to claim as their own—if only to use it against everyone else.
Continue reading Fadhil al-Azzawi (Trans. William M. Hutchins).
