An interview with Roohi Choudhry, whose debut novel, Outside Women, braids the stories of two women: Hajra, a Pakistani scholar in the US in the late twentieth-century and Sita, an indentured Indian servant in nineteenth-century S
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In this essay, translator Todd Foley discusses his translation choices in Yu Hua's City of Fiction, some of which resist conforming to more standard editorial expectations.
“The leaves are moving — like tongues, like time, like tradition, / like things rise inside an oven, soft and curious. / The leaves are moving — they’re like smoke, / always waiting for the wind to push them,” from “Asvattha,” by Sumana Roy
When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and WhatsApp posts, military measures must be taken.
Guest editor Amit R. Baishya introduces this special section on Delhi | In the Anthroposcene
“Beyond / this tedious Monday calm, an algorithm // without hunger / without teeth, something thrums / like a splinter of unease beneath the soles // of my feet,” from “Rhesus macaque,” by Nitoo Das
“Every time we lay claim to something, we fall into the yarns of loss. Don’t let the pretense of ownership run away with you,” from a poem by Marie Lundquist (trans. Miriam Åkervall)
it’s the first time in weeks i’ve been / able to stay all day on my feet & this / makes me want to say yes & keep / saying it,” from “First Warm Sunday of the Year,” by Safia Elhillo
The Captive
A man shelters from war in Gaza with his ailing fish, his mind turning to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
Seven Times Happy
Excerpts from Cross for Sale, a loose collection of stories and memories about growing up in Nablus in the 1960s.
Leila’s Dream
“Death by literature”? Despite her fatal diagnosis, Leila Ross clung to reading till the very end.
Poupeh missaghi reached out to a few people on the ground in Tehran and asked them to share their observations and insights on contemporary reading habits in Iran.
An introduction to four interviews for the Bearing Witness section exploring Black history and Black life in Santa Monica.
In his plea for the planet, in which “humans understand themselves as a harmonious part of the Earth, neither more nor less than other animals, plants, and rocks,” Spanish writer Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga advocates a new geo-humanism that restores nature to the center.
Traversing the Human/Simian Divide: A Conversation with Prateek Vats
A conversation with Prateek Vats, whose film Eeb Allay Ooo! is part of an emergent oeuvre of multispecies cinema from India.
9 Questions for Katie Goh
An interview with Katie Goh, whose book, Foreign Fruit, follows the complicated history of the orange, an investigation that parallels Goh’s search into her own heritage.
Punishment Without Crime: A Conversation with Laila Lalami
A conversation between Emily Doyle and Laila Lalami, whose The Dream Hotel, takes a harrowing look at data-driven surveillance.
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