At one point, Bassam, the protagonist of Rawi Hage’s stunning debut novel DeNiro’s Game, reminisces about how as children, he would collect brass shells, expelled from soldiers’ guns and trade them with other boys. In many ways, this pointlessly dangerous pursuit...
The universality of socio-economic fault lines and its accompanying social ills have made writers of varying capabilities to explore them since time immemorial. The results have ranged from the sublime and the searing to exploitative and unintentionally hilarious....
Even one full term after he demitted the office, Barack Obama, America’s 44th and first black president, remains a hard figure to categorize. On one hand, he is the first president since Eisenhower to win two popular votes with over 50% of votes, and maintained an...
