September 04, 2024
“Twenty-three years after its original publication, Siegert captures Vallejo’s voice, an author known for his brilliant works and controversial opinions, through the novel’s absurd and borderline-offensive dialogue.”
September 04, 2024
A conversation with Threa Almontaser, whose debut verse collection, The Wild Fox of Yemen, received the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award for best first book in 2020.
June 18, 2024
June 05, 2024
The noticeable changes from twentieth- to twenty-first-century writers reflects the continued presence and importance of feminism internationally as Japanese women continue to move out of the spaces given to them within a male-dominated field.
An interview with Hiroko Oyamada, author of The Factory, which won the Shincho Prize, and The Hole, which won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize.
“On the last solar term of autumn / so many good things are disappearing / The birds have printed their footsteps on the frosted tiles,” from “Frost‘s Descent,” by Ma Yongbo (trans. by Zack Rogow)
“my country is at war and I want a farmer cheese and vanilla bun / to travel to Europe and to not see the sign ‘You’re Safe Here’,” from [My country is at war], by Olga Bragina (trans. by Olga Zilberbourg)
“n the free circulation of commodities, there is no center or edge. We are all part of the same untraceable sludge,” from “Dead Horse Bay,” by Santiago Acosta (trans. by Tiffany Troy & The Women in Translation Project)
The Roar
Deciding between his mother’s sweet love and his father’s conditional approval, Kimurguk endures a harrowing rite of passage to transform from boy to man.
You Have to Read This!
Be careful what you wish for—especially online, especially if you’re a woman—in this modern adaptation of W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.”
The Devil’s Offspring
Desperate to have a child, a couple takes an unorthodox route to conception. But did they bargain with the devil?
Shizue Ogawa pays particular attention to the resonances between Western and Eastern culture that inspire her philosophical, aesthetic, and cosmic reflections. Here, Alice-Catherine Carls offers an overview of her remarkable literary career along with four of Ogawa’s best-known poems.
Inspired by a photo and the histories connected to it, a writer makes a film to mark Wole Soyinka’s ninetieth year.
Can we tell stories, the author asks, “in a way that makes more breathing room, that does not crush humans, not even one, not even a little girl?”
The Tragedy of the Titanic Has All the Dimensions of Fate: A Conversation with Timothy Schaffert
An interview with Timothy Schaffert, author of The TItanic Survivors Book Club.
Into the Woods: A Conversation with Italian Writer Maddalena Vaglio Tanet
A conversation with Italian novelist Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, whose debut novel, Untold Lessons, tells the story of schoolteacher Silvia who, plagued by guilt after the suicide of one of her students, suddenly goes missing.
The I-Know-Nothing Postulate: A Conversation with Ukrainian Filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa
A conversation with acclaimed Ukrainian film director Sergei Loznitsa, discussing the relationship between history and cinema, balancing documentary with narrative filmmaking, and much besides.
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