Eliza Griswold's "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity and Islam" charts the struggle over who speaks for God in the latitudes where rival beliefs come to blows. The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is the front line w[...]

"The Gifts of the State and Other Stories: New Writing from Afghanistan" radically reshapes our idea of Afghanistan as a place of unquestioning religiosity, brutal sexism, and anti-American and Russian resistance. Rather, employing stark naturalism and surrealistic and genre elements, these writers [...]