Jenna Krajeski

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom (Farrar,…

New books in Cairo are expensive, so it made sense that a large crowd gathered last May at Makan for…

“The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam” By Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010.)

Ramadan is a time of fasting, self-restraint, and good deeds. It is also an occasion for storytelling, either in celebration…

"I Curse the River of Time" by Per Petterson, translated from Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund (Graywolf 2010).

Artist Andrew Kosorok has a three-year plan. Using glass as a primary medium, he is creating 99 sculptures, each reflecting…

A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb by Amitava Kumar (Duke University Press. 2010)

The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America by Stefanie Syman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2010).

Egyptians know how to eat a mango. First, slice through the fruit horizontally and twist the halves apart. Next, twist…

The key to choosing the right book for summer is throwing out the notion that with summer comes rubbish reads,…