Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother TongueAn electrifying new side of the National Book Award Winner Yoko Tawada: her first book of essays in English I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign sounding word learned out of curiosity is not imitation per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing indefinitely. How perfect that Yoko Tawadas first essay in English dives

'what is history

Badkhen looks to the ancient Greeks for help pondering our need for certainty at a time of racist violence

and all of the moments afterward that helped make them the reader they are today

Rabak Studio (2013)

He lays out how Islam viewed slavery in theory

the Italian editor of Benjamin’s complete works

the Philippines

An exploration of how we grow

the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories can no longer be considered a temporary aberration

Universiti Sains Malaysia

living under constant surveillance

The Frontiers of Criticism (1956) and On Poetry and Poets (1957)