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April 28, 2021 |
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-discip... -
April 19, 2021 |
Street mural for Grenfell Tower, with poem by Ben Okri, North Kensington, London, image courtesy of IranWire and #PaintTheChange. London-based writer Malu Halasa canvasses the Middle Easte... -
January 27, 2021 |
A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives Matter prot... -
October 23, 2017 |
Photo by DeusXFlorida / Flickr Thanks to the marketplace and the “culture of consensus,” writes 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić, “art has become our favorite theme park.”... -
June 15, 2016 |
Episode summary Blowback against the long-standing use of Native American mascots highlights issues of identity and cultural appropriation. Supporters of using Native American symbols, names, and im... -
October 28, 2014 |
Photo by Marsha Brockman/Flickr To say literary translation is to commit a pleonasm. All translation is intrinsically literary, in the same way every text is, at least for one of the three legs th... -
June 20, 2013 |
Photo: Annie Atkins Last Christmas Day, NPR ran a story about the preeminence of the book among Christmas gifts in Iceland. In a country that has the most books per capita in the world, publishers re... -
January 9, 2013 |
Anthropologists and linguists no doubt are having a field day trying to chronicle and dissect how, in the early autumn of 2012, “Gangnam Style” became an American idiomatic expression. It stands for...
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As spring emerges and lockdown restrictions continue, here is a list of new and upcoming translated works from around the world to fill your...
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Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020)...
