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Divya Ravindranath and Apoorva Saini have set up the online archive Cities in Fiction to record how fictional narratives construct spaces in South Asia.

No One Prayed Over Their Graves⎯ translated by Leri Price, who’s also handled the three previous Khalifa novels in English⎯ erupts from catastrophe and follows well-nigh every last reverberation outward.

I spent eight years chronicling the ways poverty bred violence in post-Industrial New Haven neighborhood. Then I read the Neapolitan Quartet and recognized the same struggles in Naples.

Rating: A trip to the theatre feels like a reckless and dangerous business these days. For my wifes birthday, we dared a West End show last month. I was afraid to clear my throat, in case it was mistaken for a cough and panic swept the stalls.  But as Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discovered in Walking Tudor England (5 Select), in Shakespeares time an evening of drama really could turn into a crisis. At The Globe theatre on the South Bank, a pregnant woman and her daughter on the front row were...