Fall 2024

In The Truce, Primo Levi describes a cruelly protracted train journey, following the liberation of Auschwitz, from Krakow to a transit camp at Katowice in Upper Silesia. When the train makes one of many unexplained stops, at a place called …

When he reviewed Salman Rushdie’s novel Shalimar the Clown for the New Yorker last year, John Updike praised Rushdie for ‘animat[ing] Islam’s tenacious rage with faces and life stories.’ In Rushdie’s book, the eponymous protagonist, a Kashmiri circus performer, is …