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Alana Mohamed

FILM ARCHIVES

“Crazy Rich Asians” Is the Latest Nonwhite Rom-Com That Basks in and Subverts Old Clichés

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

Natalia Sylvester’s Immigrant Song

‘Looking back at my parents’ experience, I always wondered, “How bad did things have to get in order for you to leave everything you know and love?” ’

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

In “The Mere Wife,” Beowulf Goes to the ‘Burbs

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Summer Books

6 Summer Books That Explore the Immigrant Experience

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

Muslim Activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied Denied U.S. Entry Ahead of PEN Festival

The Sudanese Australian writer was scheduled for an event titled “The M Word: No Country for Young Muslim Women”

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

Reckoning and Resistance at the 2018 PEN World Voices Festival

This year some 165 writers representing more than fifty nationalities are scheduled to participate

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

The X Files: Elizabeth Acevedo and the Poetry of Young Identity

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of Myanmar Selected to Receive the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award

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NEW YORK CITY ARCHIVES

Saying Goodbye to Grassroots Tavern

For four decades the St. Marks watering hole was something like Cheers for locals, misfits and the resistance alike

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BOOKS ARCHIVES

“Dear Enemy” Guides Readers Through a Landscape Where Rules Don’t Apply

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