Beacon Press published Aaron Caycedo-Kimura’s collection Common Grace in 2022. A poet and visual artist, his paintings have appeared in galleries across Connecticut.
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Photo by Jesse Ditmar In Take What You Need, Idra Novey’s third novel, a woman who fled her childhood in the Allegheny Mountains endures an uneasy return when her stepmother, Jean, dies. There in her…
- Terence Hammonds (American, born 1976), Hope, 2022, HD print on aluminum, 24 x 18 in. Photo by the artistUniversal Magnetic: New Works by Terence Hammonds is currently showing at the Taft…
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Li Zi Shu is the author of the Taiwanese best-seller The Age of Goodbyes, now available in English translation by YZ Chin (Feminist Press, 2022). Q YZ Chin’s translation of …
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Photo by Lucy Tomasino Beacon Press published Alexandra Lytton Regalado’s second collection, Relinquenda, winner of the National Poetry Series, in 2022; it was a Featured Fall B…
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Ana Ojeda’s new novel, Furor fulgor—set in a dystopian future where the government dictates that only one, hegemonic, form of language is legally acceptable—was alread…
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In Neruda on the Park, Cleyvis Natera’s debut novel, a young lawyer seeks a new path after being fired from a top law firm while her mother schemes to stop a development project i…
- It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate. Literature from underrepresented languages moved to center stage. Tomb of Sand, written by…
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Mexican author Mónica Lavín’s first book available in English, Meaty Pleasures, is a collection of twelve stories translated by D. P. Snyder and edited by Michelle Rosen (202…
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Louise Erdrich Future Home of the Living God HarperCollins The first thing that happens at the end of the world is that we don’t know what is…
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In Olga Dies Dreaming (2022), Xochitl Gonzalez’s best-selling debut novel, Hurricane Maria reunites a long-absent mother with her two adult children, a New York City wedding planner and…
- I’m planning a deep dive into the three available novels in Maja Lunde’s climate quartet, all translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley: The History of Bees…
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Ai Weiwei 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir Trans. Allan H. Barr Crown Publishing Group Barbara Bloemink Florine Stettheimer: A Bio…
- Comma House. Photo by Tom Little Tuhin Das is a Bengali poet, essayist, activist, and short-story writer. Currently a writer-in-residence of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, he…
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Kwon Yeo-sun Lemon Trans. Janet Hong Other Press LEMON BEGINS LIKE many crime dramas: someone’s been murdered and the police are i…
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Masiyaleti Mbewe, “Tove the Guardian,” Niko n D7000, 3/4 (First Edition), 2018 Masiyaleti Mbewe is a Zambian queerfuturist writer, photographer, and activist raised in Botswan…
- 2021 was a robust year for literary translations. This list kept growing, and we didn’t resist. As always, though, we recognize there are, thankfully, many more and hope you’ll add them in…
- Lamar Babi, who plays Matthew (Niran's neighbor and love interest), enjoys a pomegranate while Niran's family gathers over a meal set on the floor / Photo by Kenneth Moss Born in…
- The outdoor Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum / Photo by Samir Meghelli, Curator The Smithsonian’s…
- Adrian Aguilera (Mexican, b. 1981) and Betelhem Makonnen (Ethiopian American, b. 1972), untitled (a flag for John Lewis or a green screen placeholder for an America that is yet to be)…
- Nona Faustine, In Praise of Famous Men No More, 2019, courtesy of the artist and Two Palms, © by Nona Faustine In Fantasy America, a new exhibit at The Warhol, five cross-…
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IN HER FOREWORD to The Town Slowly Empties (Headpress, 2021), Sasha Dugdale describes this slim hybrid as the author’s “lyrical d…
- Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly mo…
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During quarantine, when not watching the news or reading a novel, I find my daily vision drawn to immediate surroundings: geese touching down in the parking lot where we safely walk (no need to come w…
- In 2019 WLT continued publishing fiction, poems, interviews, and essays in translation—publishing more than 50 pieces from languages ranging from Albanian to Zoque—along with pi…