While staring at the paper on his writing desk, the author wonders whether he’s building a new Tower of Babel.There is a poem I know, by a poet who shall remain unnamed, in which the poet eng…
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Katie Kassam and Vala Thorodds, winners of the 2023 Student Translation PrizesWorld Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-…
The author’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlinAward-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as “…
Top row (left to right): Angie Cruz, Ananda Devi (credit: J.F. Paga (Grasset)), Jenny Erpenbeck (credit: Shevaun Williams)
Middle row: Valeria…
Suzanne Berne has received praise for her astute character studies of the psychological dramas underlying seemingly serene domestic settings. Her…
Scene from the premiere of Omar at the Spoleto Festival in May 2022 / Photo by Leigh Webber / spoletousa.orgThe opera Omar, which had its…