July 25, 2024
“At the edge of the village a woman in a stupa ground millet. / She whistled brazenly, calling the wind from the steppe / to keep the chaff flying so her eyes wouldn’t sting,” from an untitled poem by Aigerim Tazhi
July 24, 2024
In this excerpt from María Elena Morán’s Premio Café Gijón–winning novel, Volver a cuándo (Siruela, 2022), a woman in a refugee camp takes stock of her belongings.
June 18, 2024
June 05, 2024
An interview with Megan McDowell, a leading English-language translator of fiction from Latin America.
In this excerpt from a classic Argentine horror novel, something sinister visits a bathing woman in her new apartment.
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“I want to follow Naomi’s eyes / as they gaze around the shuttered / souk and spy in the alley’s dirt /a crumpled handkerchief / just like the one her father had,” from “I want to follow Naomi,” by Rachel Tzvia Back
“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
You Have to Read This!
Be careful what you wish for—especially online, especially if you’re a woman—in this modern adaptation of W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Death Valley
“A boy is playing a slow, mournful tune on a violin. Holding hands, the big girls trudge in a circle around their table on the right side of the room, grass-green dresses swaying,” from “UDeath Valley,” by Junko Mase
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.”
The Turkish island of Imbros represents a historical anomaly of Mediterranean geopolitics. Matt A. Hanson traces the tenacious attempt by the island’s Greek-speaking community to hold onto their history, language, and culture.
Inspired by a photo and the histories connected to it, a writer makes a film to mark Wole Soyinka’s ninetieth year.
Can we tell stories, the author asks, “in a way that makes more breathing room, that does not crush humans, not even one, not even a little girl?”
8 Questions for Gabriel Bump
An interview with Gabriel Bump, whose second novel The New Naturals was published by Algonquin Books in late 2023.
Transnational Transmission: A Conversation with North Macedonian Poet Andrej Al-Asadi
Born in London in 1997, Andrej Al-Asadi is among the foremost young poets writing in Macedonian today. In a conversation with Peter Constantine, he discusses his multicultural background and the influences that have inspired his work and that of other contemporary Macedonian poets.
“The Divine Epilepsy We Call Inspiration”: A Conversation with Mircea Cărtărescu
An interview with Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu. “A book is a UFO from the past, and a UFO is a book from the future. Both are hypnotic artifacts made for our thirst for the unknown.”
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