Suad Khatab Ali

Suad Ali is from the Emirates, in a village near Dubai. She has lived in the Far East, Russia, Paris and the UK. She was a professor and journalist for 20 years. Now she works as a freelance writer and photographer in the Washington, DC area. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Phoebe, The London Magazine, Hobart, The New Haven Review, Found Press Quarterly, Porchlight, Gulf Coast, and other journals. She is currently writing her first novel.

Books by Suad Khatab Ali

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Book Reviews by Suad Khatab Ali

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“There’s nothing particularly wrong with Slade House but, sadly, there’s nothing especially right.”

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Michel Houellebecq, the enfant terrible of French letters, is no longer an enfant and Submission is far from terrible, but his latest novel is, as usual, an even

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“It’s not a bad little novel, by most reckonings, but from William Boyd it’s a disappointment.”

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ultimately bores and irritates, rather than pleases and compels. Franzen has a lot to offer, but he needs to stop simpering and whining.”

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment first appeared in 1866, serialized monthly in The Russian Messenger.

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charming and vivid if erratic and sometimes offal.”

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“The high point of The Life of Saul Bellow is the use of illustrations.”

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“will appeal to the art lover, the record collector, the social historian, the casual observer of culture, and the curious enthusiast.” 

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“The Sympathizer has much to recommend it. . . . a serious examination of the tenuous line between civilization and barbarism.”

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“a complex novel of impeccable pace, editing, and scene direction . . . compelling and potboilingly readable, a thriller-manqué.”

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Leaving Berlin is a novel of big ideas—historical, psychological, sociological—if also rather sizeable flaws.”