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Hopey Changey Stuff in Vinson Cunningham’s “Great Expectations”

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Hopey Changey Stuff in Vinson Cunningham’s “Great Expectations”

[ad_1] St. Augustine of Hippo tells us that if we understand something, it is not God. It does not follow that if we don’t understand something, it is God, but sometimes the whispering second notion appeals to an instinct, and we try to see the mysterious as the mystery of God, anything strange and new … Read more

Interrogating Expectations in “If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English” – Chicago Review of Books

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Interrogating Expectations in “If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Rare are books that can truly – in the most genuine and interesting sense – be called experimental, but Alexandrian poet and writer Noor Naga’s first prose novel is one such rarity. Sharp, switched-on, and self-interrogating, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English masterfully continues, long after the last page is read, to provoke uncomfortable … Read more