May 16, 2024
A interview with Stephanie Pacheco, who was named the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate.
May 15, 2024
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, has announced the winners of its annual Student Translation Prize.
Taking all the buses of Buenos Aires, a writer on a mission makes the city his own.
Buenos Aires is many things, including a city for walking, snapping photographs, and writing poetry in notebooks while nibbling a medialuna in a coffee shop. Porteña writer Cecilia Pavón lets us peek into her notebooks as she wonders, Why can’t life be just drinking coffee and writing in notebooks with soft covers?
Guest editor Kit Maude on Buenos Aires. “It’s not always pretty, but it’s undoubtedly vibrant—Buenos Aires is its streets, warts and all.”
“Some of our people will hate you as they hate themselves. / You must create a life / without giving them all your life’s attention,” from “Rite of Baptism,” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“The manual couldn’t be clearer about how even moisture / trapped in sugar could ruin the melangeur, / so when the granite wheels screech and some unseen / plastic insert breaks, you anger, but decide not to let // an inattention so small dictate how you should love,” from “Melangeur,” by Mihaela Moscaliuc
“n the free circulation of commodities, there is no center or edge. We are all part of the same untraceable sludge,” from “Dead Horse Bay,” by Santiago Acosta (trans. by Tiffany Troy & The Women in Translation Project)
End of Maneuvers
“I’d never gone into the cemetery by bicycle. I’d always gone around—it didn’t seem right to use its streets as a shortcut. But it wasn’t really a shortcut, more a passage into another dimension.”
Today Is Yesterday
“Recently arrived in Buenos Aires—not a city but a dangerous miracle, buzzing with electricity like a tract of unequal promises—I lived alone, and on summer nights I liked to sleep on the floor, the window open, watching bad movies on channel 13 past midnight.”
A New Dawn
It’s 2050, and five African nations have surrendered their sovereignty to form a new nation. Alande Mukumbi, the new president of Embo, is determined to prove the naysayers wrong.
Each November, Buenos Aires’s Pride march proceeds down a ten-block stretch that is the “spine of Argentine history,” fulfilling Eva Perón’s famous prediction: “I shall return, and I shall be multitudes.”
Photographer Yousef Khanfar recalls his time with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in this tribute to the first female justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Even though the Latin American novel was never the West’s “Other,” the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of the continent’s contributions to the genre.
A Griot of the Black German Experience: A Conversation with Katharina Oguntoye
Karlos K. Hill interviews Katharina Oguntoye, a renowned Black German educator, activist, and community leader, as part of his ongoing column Bearing Witness, which highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice.
8 Questions for Isabel Zapata
Eight questions for (and eight answers from) Isabel Zapata, in whose new collection, A Whale is a Country, animals are concrete, fully drawn fellow beings, and we are invited to see them in new ways.
8 Questions for Bora Chung
A mini-interview with Bora Chung, whose collection Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize.
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