March 13, 2023‘Russia Outside Russia’: For Elite, Dubai Becomes a Wartime HarborDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On an artificial island on the edge of the Persian Gulf, Dima Tutkov feels safe. There are none of the anti-Russian […]
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July 22, 2022After Mocking France’s Literary Elite, a Fraught Invite Into the ClubMohamed Mbougar Sarr, a Senegal-born writer, has won high praise and top prizes from Paris’s insular publishing establishment. But the novelist wonders: Is it an endorsement […]