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In more recent times one need go no further than Tolstoy to find an author turning against his own earlier writings

Jamila Omairah A short story Wild Mint

Stefan George

drawing on unpublished material in the prison archives

Banipal Magazine - Issue 4 Maitreyabandhu letterboxes andIssue 4 includes interviews and appreciations on poet Mahmoud Darwish, novelist Albert Cossery, novelist Yusef Habshi al Ashqar and novelist playwright Ahmed al Fagih. Plus works by 11 poets, six fiction writers and articles on the Arabic Novel. EDITORIAL A door here, a window there opening up the house of Arab literature FEATURE ON MAHMOUD DARWISH Poems, interview and appreciations Poem Without Exile, Who Am I? plus excerpts from The Damascene Ring