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Via Utne Reader, 2016 Neustadt Prize laureate Dubravka Ugrešić shares about the experience of being a finalist—and then winner—for a big literary prize, her st…
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Photo by AVTG / Stock.adobe.comTranslator’s note: Gizella Hervay (1934–1982) is sometimes referred to as the “Ingeborg Bachmann of…
James Baldwin, whose hundredth birthday we recently celebrated, once declared that besides bearing witness to America’s perennial and intolerable…
Zong! is a problem, a provocation, a persistence on the edge of an abyss. Fifteen years after its original publication, Zong! has…
Caroline Cingria, C. F. Ramuz, pastel (1903) / Images courtesy of Noël CordonierLumen Obscurum
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Photo of the author by Jeff Norman / ZeinaAzzam.comIn Zeina Azzam’s mesmerizing collection of poems Some Things Never Leave You (Tiger Bark…
