Interviews
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May 18, 2020 |
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/H... -
April 2, 2020 |“I’m in Sympathy That Things Are Lovely But They’re Not Forever”: A Conversation with Stephen Sexton
Illustration by Nathan Stazicker Stephen Sexton, a poet from Northern Ireland, is the 2020 E. M. Forster Award winner and author of a pamphlet, Oils, published in 2014 and, most r... -
March 30, 2020 |
John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, which received an American Book Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a Ma... -
March 23, 2020 |
In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surpri... -
February 20, 2020 |
Ottilie Mulzet is the principal English-language translator of Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, winner of numerous international honors. Together, they received the 2019 National B... -
February 6, 2020 |
Photo by R. Romero © 2019 Poupeh Missaghi (@PoupehMissaghi) is a writer, educator, and a translator both into and out of Persian. She also serves as Iran’s editor at larg... -
January 7, 2020 |
Caption Miguel Ángel Hernández (b. 1977, Murcia) is a writer and a professor of art history at the University of Murcia in Spain. Some of his most important works of fiction are Inten... -
September 23, 2019 |
British Armenian writer Baret Magarian is the author of four books. His novel The Fabrications was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Kirkus, and the... -
September 17, 2019 |
Monique Truong / Photo © Haruka Sakaguchi Monique Truong, who came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee from Vietnam, began exploring untold and ignored histories in her first novel,... -
September 5, 2019 |
Alchetron / Coffee House Press Naja Marie Aidt is the author of twelve collections of poetry, a novel, and three short-story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic C... -
August 30, 2019 |
Audible’s new fiction podcast, Hag, launching August 29, features eight reimaginings of traditional British folktales by eight contemporary female writers, with folktales chosen from acr... -
August 12, 2019 |
Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven Wives, won the 2015 Indie Bo... -
August 6, 2019 |
Ugandan novelist and short-story writer Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Et... -
July 29, 2019 |
Photo (from left to right): Caroline Green, Mel McGrath, Sabine Durrant (© Mark Mawson), and Sharon Bolton I couldn’t help noticing the sudden deathly spike in women crime writers. It’s as if... -
June 26, 2019 |
This year marks the centenary of the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Peace Treaty signed between the Allied nations and Germany. We do not know if the signatories or architects of the V... -
June 25, 2019 |Of Tibetans’ Disenchantment, Reclamation, and New Literacy Space: In Conversation with Tenzin Dickie
Tenzin Dickie is a Tibetan writer and translator and editor of The Treasury of Lives, a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Her edited anthology,... -
May 9, 2019 |
Ahmad Shamlou (left) | Photo by Hadi Shafaieh. Niloufar Talebi (right) | Photo by Devlin Shand In Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi (www.niloufartalebi.com) tells her story... -
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 23, 2019 |
Blue corn / switthoft / Flickr Sara Mesa is a Spanish writer born in Madrid in 1976. Her novels include such titles as Un incendio invisible (2011, re-edited in 2017), wi... -
March 19, 2019 |
PHOTO: Edward Hill A prolific translator, playwright, novelist, and essayist from Singapore, Jeremy Tiang is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Grant, an NEA Literary Translatio... -
February 28, 2019 |
Marilène Phipps, Roots, 13 x 18 in., oil on linen canvas / Courtesy of the artist Whether she is a writer who paints or a painter who writes, Marilène Phipps combines the two gifts with a rare... -
February 14, 2019 |
Releasing the Truth, mixed media on canvas by Florine Démosthène. Courtesy of the artist. I first saw Florine Démosthène’s artwork Releasing the Truth, accompanying Anna... -
January 14, 2019 |
The Bookshop Band is traveling from Wigtown, Scotland, for its first US tour this week. Folk duo Ben Please and Beth Porter write and perform songs inspired by books using a var... -
October 31, 2018 |
Photo by Ernesto Rodríguez / Pixabay Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s play about the Day of the Dead premiered in Oklahoma City in October, leading up to the Day of the Dead on Novem... -
May 2, 2018 |
Photo (left) by Larami Serrano Shea Serrano’s path to the best-seller list was far from ordinary and, in the most literal sense, homegrown. Originally a middle-school science teacher, one...
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