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Many Native writers working today are known for their spoken-word and/or multi-genre performances. To complement their work in the print edition, we’ve gathered the following sampling. Kimberly Blaeser Heid Erdrich Eric Gansworth Arigon... -
thebmag, “Another Nuclear Winter,” Dogern, Germany, December 3, 2005 German writers are tackling the complex question of writing the environment in diverse narrative forms that provide a human scope for planet-scale issues. The... -
Photo: Shevaun Williams In 1978 Dubravka Ugrešić published her first short-story collection, A Pose for Prose. Life Is a Fairy Tale followed in 1983. The protagonists of these stories find phalluses in their hot dog buns... -
Photo: Shevaun Williams My training as a scholar of Russian literature and culture colors my readings of Dubravka Ugrešić’s work. No matter how hard I try to stop myself from reaching for parallels in classic Russian and Soviet novels, works of... -
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house in Bethesda, Maryland; in the bistro of the... -
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house in Bethesda, Maryland; in the bistro of the... -
Photo by Kai C. Schwarzer/Flickr On recent nights בַּלֵּילוֹת הָאַחֲרוֹנִיםאֲנִי מְחַפֶּשֶׂת אֶת הַבַּיִת שֶׁלִּינָעָה אַחֲרָיו בִּשְׁבִילֵי הַיְקוּםאַרְבָּעִים שְׁנוֹת מִדְבָּרמְגַשֶּׁשֶׁת בְּיָדַיִם עֵירֻמּוֹתשָׁרָה לוֹ בְּהוּנְגָרִיתכּוֹתֶבֶת... -
Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams On March 19, 2006, the French daily newspaper Le Monde published an article I wrote entitled “La francophonie, oui; le ghetto, non.”1 My intention was to question the place of francophone... -
Alain Mabanckou photo by Shevaun Williams. James Baldwin photo by Allan Warren. What happens when a francophone author imagines an epistolary exchange with an African American icon? In Letter to Jimmy, Alain Mabanckou offers a... -
A simurgh (a monstrous mythical bird with the power of reasoning and speech). From Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, Islamic...
