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From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s Ameri... More

Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, Children of the Revolution, earned him comparisons to Bellow, Fitzgerald and Naipaul, garnered ecstatic critical praise and won the Guardian First Book Award for its haunting depiction of the immigrant experience in America. Now, he enriches the themes that defined his... More

LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015Two young friends join an uprising against Uganda's corrupt regime in the early 1970s. As the line blurs between idealism and violence, one of them flees for his life. In a quiet Midwestern town in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, an African student falls for the ... More

In Uganda, two young men get caught up in a revolt against the post-colonial regime in the early 1970s. As the line between idealism and violence becomes increasingly blurred, the friends are driven apart - one of them into the deepest peril. In a quiet town in the America Midwest, an exotic strange... More

<P>Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. <P>Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D. C. , his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter no... More

Cuenta la leyenda que en el momento de la creación, todos los seres y las cosas recibieron un nombre, y eso nos define, nos distingue frente a los demás. Tomar el nombre de otro y ponérselo como un traje prestado cambia la idea de lo que somos y hacemos.Un joven creció en Uganda a principios de los ... More

Una novela sobre la inmigración, el amor y la familia. Yosef y Mariam, un matrimonio de inmigrantes etíopes, emprenden un viaje por Estados Unidos en busca de una nueva oportunidad como pareja. Treinta años después, Yosef muere y Jonas, el hijo de ambos, deja atrás su trabajo y un matrimonio fallid... More

Yosef y Mariam, un matrimonio de inmigrantes etíopes, emprenden un viaje por Estados Unidos en busca de una nueva oportunidad como pareja. Treinta años después, Yosef muere y Jonas, el hijo de ambos, deja atrás su trabajo y un matrimonio fallido para repetir aquel viaje. Jonas recrea así la historia... More

Joyce Carol Oates, Ann Beattie, Diane Ackerman, and more explore the double-edged sword of curiosity . . . Curiosity is as central to life as breathing. And like breath itself, when it ceases, the vibrancy of life fades and disappears. Curiosity leads to discoveries both beneficent and, at times, de... More

This spring 2019 edition of Bard College’s literary journal explores the fascination and mystery of night through stories, poems, essays, and memoirs. Scheherazade famously spun stories for a thousand and one nights in order to sustain her life. In recognition of how vital it is to voice our own sto... More

Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited. Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom... More