Vicka Boleyn·Feb 25Spoiler-free book review by a Mexican Anthropologist #8: “Days and Travels”, by Paul BowlesAfter some time inactive here, I come back with the review of a book I found in the University’s library near home.
IneriandthebooksbyErica Di Cillo·May 17, 2025Tangier. A City Written in LayersA literary journey through Tangier — from Beat writers and Moroccan voices to Jarmusch’s vampires and Matisse’s colors.
Hassen Daoues·Mar 1, 2025The Gaze, the Uncanny, and the Other: Paul Bowles’ “The Eye” and the Violence of Cross-Cultural…Author’s Note: This chapter is part of a broader work-in-progress examining Paul Bowles’ literary engagement with Moroccan folklore. As a…
Hassen Daoues·Feb 27, 2025The Baraka of the Imaginary: Sufism, Subjectivity, and the Vicissitudes of Desire in Paul Bowles’…Author’s Note: This chapter is part of a broader work-in-progress examining Paul Bowles’ literary engagement with Moroccan folklore. As a…
Hassen Daoues·Feb 22, 2025The Semiotics of Betrayal and the Poetics of Rivalry in Paul Bowles’ “The Story of Lahcen and Idir”Author’s Note: This chapter is part of a broader work-in-progress examining Paul Bowles’ literary engagement with Moroccan folklore. As a…
Hassen Daoues·Feb 8, 2025Sufism, Sorcery, and the Sly Provocations of the Real: Bowles’ “Hallucinatory Realism” and the…Author’s Note: This chapter is part of a broader work-in-progress examining Paul Bowles’ literary engagement with Moroccan folklore. As a…
Hassen Daoues·Feb 8, 2025Roots and Rootlessness The Symbolic Landscape of Paul Bowles’ Madame and AhmedAuthor’s Note: This chapter is part of a broader work-in-progress examining Paul Bowles’ literary engagement with Moroccan folklore. As a…
Rashmee Roshan Lall·Oct 13, 2021The 1950s book that explains the War on TerrorIn the weeks and months after America launched its ‘war’ against global terrorism, a list of books was compiled as a way to understand the…
Jon Zobenica·Sep 1, 2020The Secret Lives of Used Books (The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles)This inscription in my copy of Paul Bowles’s 1949 The Sheltering Sky is priceless: “Dec. 1998 I don’t know what kept me reading — strange…
