Sundry Links

The new issue of Outsider Ink is now up, and includes this piece by Daniel Olivas.

Edwar Kharrat writes a remembrance of his friend, Badr El-Dib, "a prominent journalist, a noted scholar, an astute literary critic, an adept and scrupulous translator, and one of the foremost intellectuals of [Egypt]".

The TLS reviews Zadie Smith's newest novel.

Bjork has made a film with her hubby, artist Mathew Barney, in which they play humans who turn into whales.

Richard Ford writes an elegy for his home town.