Excerpts from Taxi
A selection of Khaled Al Khamissi’s short story collection Taxi appears in the International Writers edition of the literary magazine Ninth Letter. A bestseller in Egypt, Taxi contains fifty-eight fictional monologues of Cairo cabbies, and paints a rich portrait of North African life through the voices of the people.
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Ninth Letter
Published: Oct 1, 2016
Length: 13 minutes (3,292 words)
Life, Death and Witchcraft in the Niger Delta: Our Longreads Member Pick
For this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share “On the Far Side of the Fire,” an essay by Jessica Wilbanks, which first appeared in Ninth Letter and was awarded the journal’s annual creative nonfiction award. This is the first time it has been published online.
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Ninth Letter
Published: Jan 23, 2014
Length: 27 minutes (6,860 words)