Crime Fiction
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August 18, 2021 |
A dizzying debut with something to say and a story to tell, David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020) takes crime novel conventions and recasts them in a fresh, uniquely Native...
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October 14, 2020 |
Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Soho Crime Trans. Marlaine Delargy I first picked up Swedish writer Helene Tursten’s collection of stories for its title and for its length; I...
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July 15, 2016 |
Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re...
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June 24, 2016 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community. Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P...
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January 22, 2015 |
A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim plus Roberto Fernández Retamar’s reading re...
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December 5, 2014 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews We sadly note the passing of two literary greats this week: first, former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away at the age of 80; second, Egypt...
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October 10, 2014 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor’s...
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December 7, 2012 |
This week's News, Reviews, and Interviews section is chock-full of new poetry, prose, and translations from around the world. Make sure you get your fill! News, Reviews, and Interviews...