A review by ampersandinc
McSweeney's Issue 76 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Aftershocks (Syrian Fiction) by Alia Malek, Rita Bullwinkel, Dave Eggers

3.0

As always, another interesting quarterly rendition from McSweeney’s, this issue focusing on contemporary Syrian prose. It includes short stories, dramas, and excerpts from novels and are largely in translation from Arabic. As with every collection like this, there were some pieces that connected more than others, but there was a definite poetic, magical realism (in a good way) quality to many of the pieces.