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Book Review: “Eve out of her Ruins” — Mauritian Realities

January 26, 2017
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It would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.

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Book Review: “The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers” — In-between Worlds

December 21, 2016
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Fouad Laroui’s striking collection of stories describes a world “where everything is foreign.”

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Book Review: Mathematicians in Combat — Michèle Audin’s “One Hundred Twenty-One Days”

April 11, 2016
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Audin scrutinizes political commitment when it is undertaken by representatives of an intellectual discipline detached from the real world.

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Book Review: The Blissful “Botched-Night Splendor” of Tram 83

October 2, 2015
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Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.

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Book Review: Anne Garréta’s “Sphinx” — A Compelling Story of Genderless Love

July 15, 2015
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Garréta pulls off a stylistic feat: it is impossible to determine the gender of the two main characters.

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