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Food and Migration: A Conversation with Artist Emeka Ogboh (Recipe Included)

By Michelle Johnson

Winter 2019
Michelle Johnson

Photo: Kake/Flickr Born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now dividing his time between Lagos and Berlin, Emeka Ogboh is an artist exploring migration, globalization, and colonialization through sound and...
Writing Singapore: Anglophone City Poetics and the Asian Experience: A Conversation with Grace Chia

By Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Jason Eng Hun Lee

Winter 2019
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Jason Eng Hun Lee

Photo: Iva Krakovic Grace Chia is the author of the poetry collections womango, Cordelia, and Mother of All Questions, the short-story collection Every Moving Th...
The Aesthetics of the City: A Conversation with Youssouf Amine Elalamy

By Nisrine Slitine El Mghari

Winter 2019
Nisrine Slitine El Mghari

Youssouf Amine Elalamy with one of his handmade graphic cards he created to accompany the written text in Tqarqīb ennāb Born in Morocco in 1961, Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a writer and...
An Army of Spiritual Teachers: A Conversation with Alice Walker

By Erik Gleibermann

November 2018
Erik Gleibermann

Photo: Scott Campbell. Courtesy of Joy Harris Literary Agency I’m sure it wasn’t coincidental, when I phoned Alice Walker at her northern California home in August, to find her gardening...
Translating Alice Walker: A Conversation with Manuel García Verdecia

By Daniel Simon

November 2018
Daniel Simon

Manuel with Alice / Courtesy of alicewalkersgarden.com In conjunction with Erik Gleibermann’s interview with Alice Walker that headlines the November issue of World Literature...
“The Ephemeral Condition of Concrete Things”: A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec

By Graziano Krätli

November 2018
Graziano Krätli

Sergio Chejfec sits in front of an art installation of his writing titled Dissemination of a Novel. Photo: Valerie Mejer Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine writer based in New York City. Bor...
“Art Should Make You Uncomfortable:” A Conversation with Vu Tran

By Michelle Johnson

November 2018
Michelle Johnson

Photo: Ulf Andersen Author of the noir novel Dragonfish, Vu Tran teaches English and fiction at the University of Chicago. Also a contributor to the collection of essays Th...
Capturing a Musical Reaction to Literature: A Conversation with Lusterlit’s Susan Hwang & Charlie Nieland

By Michelle Johnson

September 2018
Michelle Johnson

Photo: Carrie Lou Performing as Lusterlit, Susan Hwang and Charlie Nieland alternate lead vocals and harmonies while supporting each other on guitar, bass, synth, traditional Korean...
“If I Strip away Everything, What Is Left?”: A Conversation with Chris Abani

By Rob Roensch, Mary B. Gray

July 2018
Rob Roensch, Mary B. Gray

Photo: Claus Gretter/chrisabani.com Chris Abani is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter whose awards include the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Hurston/Wright Lega...
The Big Thing: A Conversation with Masatsugu Ono

By Reid Bartholomew

May 2018
Reid Bartholomew

photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori) Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), whi...
Telling It Slant: A Conversation with Marilyn Nelson

By Sarah Rebecca Warren

March 2018
Sarah Rebecca Warren

photo: shevaun williams / shevaun williams & associates I had the privilege of sitting down with Marilyn Nelson the day before she was awarded the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Liter...
It Is Solved by Walking: A Conversation with Writer-Flâneuse Kathleen Rooney

By Michelle Johnson

March 2018
Michelle Johnson

photo: joe mazza Kathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone. With E...
On Home, Belongingness, and Multicultural Britain: A Conversation with Hannah Lowe

By Jennifer Wong

March 2018
Jennifer Wong

photo: hayley madden Born to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which celebrates the multicultural life of London and i...
“Treasuring the Tradition of Inspired Resistance”: A Conversation with Maureen Freely

By Michelle Johnson

January 2018
Michelle Johnson

Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of five n...
Breaking Open Gates: A Conversation with Emmy Pérez

By Norma Cantú, Chelsea Rodríguez

January 2018
Norma Cantú, Chelsea Rodríguez

Emmy Pérez is a Chicana poet and writer. She grew up in Santa Ana, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California. She later attended Columbia University where she...
Memory, Literature, and Revised History: A Conversation with Jia Pingwa

By Min Yang

January 2018
Min Yang

Jia Pingwa is a globally renowned Chinese writer who has lived through and written about major changes in Chinese society since 1978 when China launched the reform and opening-up policy. Bo...
Playing Hopscotch in the Gaps of History: A Conversation with Eleni Kefala

By Adam J. Goldwyn

January 2018
Adam J. Goldwyn

Photo: Eleni Kefala For more, read a poem by Eleni Kefala Eleni Kefala has published two volumes of poetry, Mními kai parallayés (2007; Memory and variations),...
Redeeming Desire: A Conversation with Li-Young Lee

By Jennifer Wong

January 2018
Jennifer Wong

Photo © Donna Lee Born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From Blos...
Dancing Wisdom and Embodied Knowledge in African Diaspora Traditions: In Conversation with Yvonne Daniel

By Vikram Zutshi

November 2017
Vikram Zutshi

In her landmark interdisciplinary study of African diaspora religious systems through dance performances, Yvonne Daniel considers three religious systems that rely heavily on dance behav...
Translating Full Throttle: A Conversation with Lawrence Venuti

By Peter Constantine

November 2017
Peter Constantine

Photo: Karen Van Dyck Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translati...
Writing as Judgment or Scream: A Conversation with Aslı Erdoğan

By Erkut Tokman

November 2017
Erkut Tokman

Photo by Mateusz Skwarczek After finishing a master’s degree in physics and writing her thesis on the Higgs-Boson particle, Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Istanbul) work...
"Starving for Order": A Conversation with Ted Kooser

By Daniel Simon

November 2017
Daniel Simon

Harvey Dunn, I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1926 / Courtesy South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota For more, read two new poems by Ted Kooser. While in Lincoln to attend the r...
“We Carry Home within Us”: A Conversation with Laleh Khadivi & Sholeh Wolpé

By Persis Karim

September 2017
Persis Karim

Left to Right: Laleh Khadivi, Sholeh Wolpé, and Persis Karim joined around Karim’s kitchen table to discuss their contributions to Iranian diaspora literature. Persis Karim, a poet and the editor of...
“Swimming through Bricks”: A Conversation with Simon Armitage

By Rob Roensch, Quinn Carpenter Weedon

September 2017
Rob Roensch, Quinn Carpenter Weedon

Prolific poet Simon Armitage (b. 1963, Marsden, UK) is also a novelist, playwright, lyricist, librettist, translator, and author of several books of nonfiction. In this interview, conduc...
Literature as Delayed Dialogue: A Conversation with Kike

By Paul Holzman

September 2017
Paul Holzman

A family man, father of three, martial arts aficionado, and longtime acolyte of Charles Bukowski, Karl Marx, and North American crime writers, Kike is known for his crime fiction. Photo:...

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