Alison Anderson and David Shook. Shook photo by Travis Elborough
Three years ago, in a post published on Words Without Borders, Alison Anderson asked, “Where Are the Women in Translation?” T...
Juan José Saer
The Clouds
Trans. Hilary Vaughn DobelOpen Letter
Doctor Real’s manuscript, located on a computer disk found by Pichón Garay, describes his trip with five mental patients to a...
Kolkata. Photo by Matthew Winterburn/Flickr
Kolkata has much to offer any traveler, whether history buff, literary aficionado, culture seeker, or wandering flâneur. In several places around the city,...
1. He wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue” popularized by Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live At San... by DJ_DirtyDevil
2. In 1956 he started drawing comics for...
The Man from Snowy River (1982, Australia)
Director: George Miller; Screenplay: Cul Cullen, John Dixon; Poem: Banjo Patterson (same title)
Jim Craig is eighteen when his father dies, and to...
While we’re celebrating poetry, let’s not overlook the poets who have written for children. Here are five international poets you should know, all of whom have included children’s poetry among their w...
Tibetan poet Woeser
Since China’s invasion in the 1950s, the West’s main focus has been on the struggle for independence in Tibet, reporting the monks’ fiery suicides and protestors or journalists d...
November 27–December 11
Tears in Rain
Rosa Montero, Lilit Žekulin Thwaites, tr.
AmazonCrossingNovember 27, 2012
Detective Bruna Husky, a replicant or “techno-human,” was designed by humans to perform...
The Bird That Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
Walter Murch, tr.
Counterpoint
For the first time, the works of Curzio Malaparte, an Italian journalist, novelist,...
A poet often sculpts language to invoke memory, feelings, and reflection. In this list of found poems, we discovered seven memorial sites all over the world that have incorporated poetry to commemorat...
A Game for SwallowsZeina Abirached, tr. Edward Gauvin
Graphic Universe
Born in the midst of the Lebanese war when the city of Beirut was divided between Christians and Musli...
“I think that’s what a lot of us want to do—bring something new to people who wouldn’t have it otherwise. And even though I’ve lost my naiveté about the translator’s ability to make much of an impres...