November 26, 2024
“In the beginning what was solitary/ in the land escaped belongingly / no one’s a word imagined as spoken to self / from the deep breath or breathe,” from “In the Beginning the Word,” by Rachel Tzvia Back
November 22, 2024
Four poems from Najwan Darwish’s forthcoming collection, No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014-2024, appear in Kareem James Abu-Zeid’s translations.
Guest editor Rea Amit shares a list of 34 books by Japanese women writers
The noticeable changes from twentieth- to twenty-first-century writers reflects the continued presence and importance of feminism internationally as Japanese women continue to move out of the spaces given to them within a male-dominated field.
Guest editor Rea Amit on the recent history of Japanese women writing literature. “women writers continue to uphold and revitalize the written word as a platform for meaningful engagement in the twenty-first century.”
“you dance / because your bellies are empty . . . / that’s how you fight loneliness & the biting economic meltdown . . . / you men with villages of wives,” from “the dance,” by Vonani Bila
This erasured handmade map was crafted through and over Samuel Penniman Bates’s chapter on the 25th United States Colored Regiment in his History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861–65 (first published in 1869).
“On the last solar term of autumn / so many good things are disappearing / The birds have printed their footsteps on the frosted tiles,” from “Frost‘s Descent,” by Ma Yongbo (trans. by Zack Rogow)
Game Land
Welcome to Game Land, where your every pleasure will be satisfied.
Love All
A lover of love, everything Momo does is designed to give her the advantage.
The Roar
Deciding between his mother’s sweet love and his father’s conditional approval, Kimurguk endures a harrowing rite of passage to transform from boy to man.
Following the June 2024 elections in India, making Narendra Modi the head of a coalition government, a writer from New Delhi decides to revisit Amit Chaudhuri’s On Being Indian, set in a time of political tumult in India when the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party returned for a second term in 2019.
Despite Berdichev, Ukraine, being Joseph Conrad’s ancestral home, few of its residents seem to know much about him. Oliver Raw investigated by visiting northern Ukraine, exploring the parallels between Conrad’s experiences of growing up under czarist oppression and Ukraine’s current struggles against a resurgent Russian imperialism.
In a country where wanting to remain rural is a choice now only available to the wealthy, what does rural mean? Here, Sumana Roy contemplates the stigmas and realities of the rural through a portmanteau of rural and urban.
Fostering Nonviolent Communities with Live Free OKC: A Conversation with Jabee Williams
An interview with Jabee Williams, an Emmy Award–winning hip-hop artist and co-founder of Live Free OKC.
7 Questions for Praveen Herat
7 Questions (and 7 Answers) from In Praveen Herat, whose debut novel, Between This World and the Next (Restless Books, 2024), features a British war photographer who uncovers crime and corruption in a Cambodia beyond the rule of law.
Into the Woods: A Conversation with Italian Writer Maddalena Vaglio Tanet
A conversation with Italian novelist Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, whose debut novel, Untold Lessons, tells the story of schoolteacher Silvia who, plagued by guilt after the suicide of one of her students, suddenly goes missing.
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