June 27, 2022
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Daniel Simon
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when they bombed other people’s houses, we // protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not // enough. – Ilya Kaminsky, “We Lived Happily During the War”... -
a dark angel flies with a shofar playing his trumpet in flight – Boris Khersonsky HOW IS IT possible to think about art during a time of war? Years before the Russian milit... -
I think there is something transformative about living through, liberating yourself and evolving past your brutish histories. – Saba Sebhatu, “Final Landing” PRIOR TO GOING ... -
WHAT DOES A Babylonian epic—which dates to the twenty-first century bce in its earliest preserved versions—have to say to readers of world literature in the twenty-first century ce, s... -
Say eros in translation, say I want to be translated by you. – Sawako Nakayasu, Say Translation Is Art ARABIC, CHINESE, FRENCH, Hebrew, Ikyaushi, Italian, Japanese,... -
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit. – Edward W. Said, “The Myth of ‘The Clash of Civilizations’” IN ITS... -
Spectators heading toward Greenwood on June 1, 1921 / Courtesy of the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library Just published by the University of Oklahoma Press, The 1921 Tulsa Race Mas... -
We were never meant to survive. – Audre Lorde, “A Litany for Survival” (1978) Amid the destruction of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre—the white assault on the city’s Greenwood District that claimed as m... -
December 11, 2020 |
Theodore Ziolkowski in 1992 / Photo by Robert Matthews, Princeton University Our strolls through the cemeteries of Berlin, then, are no more funereal and depressing than, say, the performa... -
IT COULD BE ARGUED that World Literature Today (still) exists because of the Neustadt Prize, not the other way around. In the mid-1960s, some University of... -
Hope is the work that we must do, so much work to fix this. – Eïrïc R. Durändal-Stormcrow, “Don’t Suicide” In his poem “Impromptu,” written while walking along the Piedras River watershed, Pu... -
August 27, 2020 |
This week marks the sixty-fifth anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till on August 28, 1955. Karlos K. Hill’s new book, The Murder of Emmett Till, retells and recontextualizes the story... -
Lauren Camp Took House Tupelo Press I will speak of this wind . . . of the seams of desire. —Lauren Camp, “Remember It Was” The Greek mythological term omophagia... -
We’ll want to know what happened, and why—not just the factual whys . . . but the why of the human psyche. – Rilla Askew, “Cataclysm” ON THE COVER of this issue: sixteen empt... -
We look through the glass to see each other, but from certain angles we catch the glint of our own reflection. – Rachel Ang IF LIT MAGS sketch the “first draft” of litera... -
Shimon Adaf Aviva-No Trans. Yael Segalovitz Alice James Books thus I shall not let slip between my hands / a sister into time. – Shimon Adaf I must confess: Shimon Adaf’s... -
IN AN ESSAY that appeared in these pages forty-five years ago, Tomás Rivera wrote: “For me the literary experience [of Chicano literature] is one of total communion, an awesome awaren... -
Activism will always be about stories, which I believe save lives. – Emily Rapp Black WHEN THE SELF-PROCLAIMED “Indians of All Nations” occupied Alcatraz Island in November 1... -
If one were to drive a nail through this decade, planetary history would swing in the balance. – Kathleen Dean Moore, ISLE, Winter 2014 FIVE YEARS AGO, in the headno... -
April 30, 2019 |
Garden mural from the triclinium of Livia, ca. 30–20 BC, Palazzo Massimo, Rome / Photo by Ian Scott / Flickr With the recent publication of her latest verse collection, This Bright Da... -
April 12, 2019 |
The Youth Strike for Climate Protest, London, March 15, 2019 / Photo: David Holt / Flickr Looking ahead to our summer 2019 issue, with its cover focus devoted to “The Global Literature of Clim... -
April 1, 2019 |
To kick off National Poetry Month, I’d like to share with you five favorite poets/poems that have appeared in the magazine’s pages over the past five years. Zsuzsa Takács (Hungary), “On Vision” and “... -
What to do with the time traveler, the stranger, the alien? – Ladan Osman What do Hong Kong and Niger have in common, apart from being on opposite ends of the UN Human Development Index? (On... -
The page is both full of death and free of it. – Edwidge Danticat “And because my mother did not write letters and because I did not ever want to forget the things I wished my mother were tel... -
November 16, 2018 |
Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe / Photo by Phillip Kalantzis Cope / Flickr In the wake of the October 27 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the U...
