Book Review: ‘The Dream Hotel’ is a dystopian world in which people are detained for dreams
Novelist Laila Lalami imagines a dystopian world in which people are detained for dreams about future crimes in her new book ...
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10 new books you should read in March
Laila Lalami, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is back with her fifth novel, The Dream Hotel. All of Lalami’s past works have been in different genres, and her ...
The Boston Globe26d
When your thoughts brand you a criminal, how can you get free?
Moroccan American author Laila Lalami is a chronicler of cultures and an observer of human behavior toward marginalized communities. Her fifth book, “The Dream Hotel,” continues in that vein ...
The New York Times19d
If You Want This Kind of Love, Don’t Expect It to Be Easy
But your time is your time. I don’t know if this answers your question, but there’s this poem about Layla and Majnun. I don’t know if you’ve heard it before, but it’s like this classic ...
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Review: ‘The Dream Hotel’ is a dystopian world in which people are detained for dreams
THE DREAM HOTEL. By Laila Lalami. Pantheon. 336 pages. $29. Anyone who spends time on the internet knows that our demographics, preferences and interests are assiduously tracked by Big Tech ...
Christian Science Monitor10d
Laila Lalami taps into privacy concerns in ‘The Dream Hotel’
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
The Daily Star27d
Tamam Na Sud
These three words at the end of the book ignite a plethora of emotions in the mind of the reader as they start to identify themselves as one of the two protagonists – Shabnam or Majnun and even ...
Boxing Scene15d
Savannah Marshall and Laila Ali could be next for Claressa Shields, says promoter
Promoter Dmitriy Salita has proposed two future fights for women’s undisputed heavyweight titleholder Claressa Shields: a rematch with Savannah Marshall and an exhibition bout with Laila Ali ...
Express & Star27d
Mother on hunger strike over jailed son in hospital, says family
Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, who has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after ...
The Irish Times16d
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami: A Kafkaesque world of unknowable rules
Reading dystopian fiction in dystopian times may feel slightly masochistic, but Moroccan-American author Laila Lalami’s fifth ... for a Pulitzer Prize and this book’s timely call to arms ...
The New York Times10d
Children’s Books
In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib In Linda Joan Smith’s ...