Danish Lit
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September 1, 2021 |
Photo by Megan (Markham) Bucknall / Unsplash It is easy to be a mother. Childbirth was nothing. Marriage and divorce only crack the plaster a little like when the S-train goes by. It is... -
June 22, 2021 |
Photo by Hollie Santos / Unsplash When a woman’s husband leaves her, she feels betrayed by her daughter, who had not been able to fulfill her duty, her purpose for coming into existence.... -
April 6, 2021 |
Browsing a Copenhagen airport bookstore, a translator picks up a book. The journey between that impulse and his eventual translation of the memoir into English was both emotional and serendipitou...
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“Instead of a totalizing interpretation,” writes the author, translators should seek a dialogical one. “We...
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In spring of the year I turned twenty
I looked for a river
river calm and wide
that I believed to be my...
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Whether he is recounting his nighttime drive with a late colleague and poet around the beltway of the pulsing...
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will host the 2021...
