August 27, 2015
Poet Nathalie Handal, author of The Republics, combines her love of cities and books in a monthly series called “The City and the Writer,” for the organization Words without Borders. “I have a passion for cities, their irresistible unrest, the way they make you feel unsettled yet welcomed,” she explained. “I also have a passion for books. And, as we all know, the two go hand-in-hand. It’s hard not to think of Prague when one mentions Milan Kundera. Just as it’s difficult when one mentions the mystical Tangiers to not think of Paul Bowles and his expatriate life among the…