Like a literary phoenix, the One Thousand and One Nights – first printed in English, in 1706, as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment – has surpassed time, culture, changing fashion and even controversy ...

“The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from the 1001 Nights” edited with an Introduction and Notes by Paulo Lemos Horta, translated by Yasmine Seale. New York and London: Norton, 2021. 732 pages, $45 ...

Long before meta-fiction, blog fiction, expropriation, or hypertext, there was Shahrazad, the slinkiest, sexiest, most ineradicable trickster in global literature, telling stories every night toward ...

When Dickens’s David Copperfield describes his schooldays, his memories quickly fall into the miserable grooves of “tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet ...

Few books have evoked the visual imagination as The Thousand and One Nights — an exceptional, even aberrant work, with respect to some of the most important conventions of medieval Arabic literature.

For its first 40 or so minutes, Arabian Nights, Volume 3: The Enchanted One—the final part of Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’ ambitious Arabian Nights project—plays like a time-machine accident, ...

A battle over Arabian Nights has emerged in Egypt, with a group of lawyers calling for a ban of the centuries-old story collection and the country's writers blasting the campaign. A group of Islamist ...

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