Featured Books
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Our reviews are written by Christopher Merrill, The World's international literature critic, unless noted otherwise. Merrill directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
| May 21, 2009 |
New reads from the Middle East |
| April 30, 2009 |
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday |
| April 28, 2009 |
The Crisis of Islamic Civilization |
| April 24, 2009 |
The Beautiful Tree |
| April 20, 2009 |
A Drifting Life |
| April 7, 2009 |
This Child Will Be Great |
| April 7, 2009 |
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights |
| March 26, 2009 |
Leaving India - My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents |
| March 19, 2009 |
The Vagrants |
| March 10, 2009 |
Every Man Dies Alone |
| March 10, 2009 |
The Kindly Ones |
| February 26, 2009 |
A Comrade Lost and Found |
| February 18, 2009 |
Season of Migration to the North |
| January 28, 2009 |
Things I've Been Silent About |
| December 25, 2008 |
Books for life |
| December 18, 2008 |
A Blessed Child |
| December 18, 2008 |
Feather Man |
| December 12, 2008 |
Holiday Books 2008 |
| December 11, 2008 |
2008 Children's Holiday Books |
| December 9, 2008 |
Prescription for Survival: A Doctor's Journey to End Nuclear Madness |
| October 30, 2008 |
Walking to Guantanamo |
| October 13, 2008 |
Yesterday's Weather: Stories |
| October 13, 2008 |
The Secret Scripture |
| October 9, 2008 |
A Blessed Child |
| September 29, 2008 |
The Galveston That Was |
| September 24, 2008 |
The Forever War |
| September 19, 2008 |
Left in Dark Times |
| September 16, 2008 |
Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq |
| September 5, 2008 |
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood |
| August 15, 2008 |
The Girl from Foreign |
| August 5, 2008 |
2008 Summertime reads |
| July 17, 2008 |
Christopher Merrill's 2008 summer picks |
| July 15, 2008 |
The Enchantress of Florence |
| June 27, 2008 |
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone |
| May 27, 2008 |
The Man Who Loved China |
| May 20, 2008 |
Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape |
| May 20, 2008 |
Khirbet Khizeh |
| May 14, 2008 |
Socialism Is Great! |
| May 12, 2008 |
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out |
| May 12, 2008 |
Wolf Totem |
| May 7, 2008 |
Beyond The Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the other China |
| May 6, 2008 |
Wolves of the Crescent Moon |
| April 30, 2008 |
Invisible Nation |
| April 24, 2008 |
Shut up, I'm talking |
| April 18, 2008 |
The Endless City |
| April 8, 2008 |
The Bin Ladens |
| April 7, 2008 |
Taxi |
| March 18, 2008 |
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur |
| March 17, 2008 |
Bad Lands |
| March 5, 2008 |
Plan B 3.0 - Mobilizing to Save Civilization |
| February 25, 2008 |
Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit |
| February 21, 2008 |
Tunnels |
| February 18, 2008 |
A Golden Age |
| February 14, 2008 |
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World |
| January 22, 2008 |
Crockatt & Powell's book recommendations |
| December 12, 2007 |
Biting the Wax Tadpole - Confessions of a Language Fanatic |
| December 7, 2007 |
Christopher Merrill's children's holiday books selection |
| December 6, 2007 |
Christopher Merrill's holiday books selection 2007 |
| December 6, 2007 |
World reporters' book recommendations |
| December 6, 2007 |
Books we've reviewed on The World in 2007 |
| November 9, 2007 |
The Arrival |
| October 1, 2007 |
The Ten Thousand Things |
| September 21, 2007 |
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor |
| August 28, 2007 |
2007 Summer Reads |
| July 3, 2007 |
Travel books |
| June 28, 2007 |
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life |
| June 28, 2007 |
1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East |
| June 28, 2007 |
Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps |
| June 28, 2007 |
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood |
| June 28, 2007 |
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid |
| June 27, 2007 |
Macedonia |
| June 20, 2007 |
Salman Rushdie |
| June 15, 2007 |
I'jaam |
| June 13, 2007 |
American Visa |
| June 8, 2007 |
Road from Ar Ramadi |
| May 9, 2007 |
Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story |
| May 2, 2007 |
A Dry White Season |
| May 2, 2007 |
Before I Forget |
| April 27, 2007 |
Abyssinian Chronicles |
| April 5, 2007 |
The Savage Detectives |
| March 29, 2007 |
The Last Mughal |
| March 20, 2007 |
In the Country of Men |
| March 12, 2007 |
We Band of Angels |
| March 12, 2007 |
The Story of French |
| March 6, 2007 |
Blood and Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia |
| March 6, 2007 |
The Long Road Home |
| February 23, 2007 |
Aya |
| February 22, 2007 |
How I Became a Nun |
| February 15, 2007 |
A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier |
| February 13, 2007 |
365 Ways To Change the World: How to Make a Difference One Day at a Time |
| February 8, 2007 |
The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border |
| January 30, 2007 |
Farewell Waltz |
| January 30, 2007 |
The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts |
| January 26, 2007 |
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One |
| January 24, 2007 |
Ryszard Kapuściński |
| January 17, 2007 |
African Queen - The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus |
| January 1, 2007 |
Books that Inspire |
| December 28, 2006 |
The Eejits |
| December 12, 2006 |
Best books for 2006 |
| December 11, 2006 |
Best children's books for 2006 |
| November 30, 2006 |
Arabesque - A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon |
| November 22, 2006 |
Bleeding Hearts |
| November 15, 2006 |
Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers |
| November 6, 2006 |
Seeing |
| November 1, 2006 |
Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom |
| October 10, 2006 |
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea |
| October 6, 2006 |
Insecure at Last |
| October 5, 2006 |
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir |
| September 28, 2006 |
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families |
| September 8, 2006 |
A Woman in Jerusalem |
| July 7, 2006 |
Flaubert: A Biography |
| July 6, 2006 |
Suite Française |
| July 5, 2006 |
Empress |
| May 5, 2006 |
The Helmet of Horrors |
| May 4, 2006 |
Lion’s Honey |
| May 3, 2006 |
Weight |
| May 2, 2006 |
The Penelopiad |
| May 1, 2006 |
A Short History of Myth |
| March 9, 2006 |
Shalimar the Clown |
| March 8, 2006 |
What the Body Remembers |
| March 7, 2006 |
The Cripple and His Talismans |
| March 6, 2006 |
The Idea of Pakistan |
| March 4, 2006 |
Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time |
| March 3, 2006 |
Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy) |
| March 2, 2006 |
Gate of the Sun |
| March 1, 2006 |
The Nimrod Flipout |
| February 6, 2006 |
American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville |
| January 3, 2006 |
Matisse the Master, A Life of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 |
| January 2, 2006 |
The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value |
| January 1, 2006 |
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 |
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