Alice-Catherine Carls offers a career-spanning overview of the work of Polish writer Anna Frajlich.A few weeks after having been expelled from Poland on November 12, 1969, Anna Frajlich…
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- August 25, 2025The year 2025 has been a remarkable one for French writer Marc Alyn (b. 1937). First, La Rumeur libre published his three-volume collected works, totaling nearly 1,500 pages. On March 27, during…
- September 10, 2024Caroline Cingria, C. F. Ramuz, pastel (1903) / Images courtesy of Noël Cordonier Lumen Obscurum Light and darkness are a major part of the global human experience; their contras…
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Shizue Ogawa pays particular attention to the resonances between Western and Eastern culture that inspire her philosophical, aesthetic, and cosmic reflections. Here, Alice-Catherine Carl…
- June 27, 2024A recent Parisian exhibit about the pre-impressionists revealed that before painting techniques changed, artists abandoned heroic subjects and eternal, noble emotions to portray ordinary people and s…
- October 10, 2023Photo by Alexander Grey / Unsplash In this follow-up piece connected to her “The Keepers of the Books” essay in WLT’s May 2023 cover feature, Alice-Catherine Carls examines the role o…
- July 11, 2023Zuzanna Ginczanka in April 1938 / Muzeum Literatury / East News History displaced Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944) from birth. Born in Kiev a few days after the outbreak of the October 1917 Bolshevik…
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Alex Castro Ferreira, Be Proud, artist book / Courtesy of the artist / www.alexcastroferreira.com Where have books been? Where are they going? In this tour d’horizon, Alice-Catherine Car…
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For Shizue Ogawa, creating is more important than publishing and selling, and yet her readership has been steadily growing in Japan and internationally. Her poetry paints the world with serenity and w…
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Serge Chamchinov is a man of many languages and a scientist, visual artist, writer, and book binder. He creates first, then self-promotes his books through book reviews, exhibitions, and poetry festiv…
- April 10, 2023And these things, that live by going away, know that you praise them; fleeting, they look to us for rescue, us, the most fleeting of all. Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Ninth Elegy” The author of twenty-…
- March 8, 2022Para on Lake Baikal in southern Siberia / Photo courtesy of the author Editorial note: “Siberian Romance,” a suite of Para’s poems, accompanies this introductory essay. Born in 1956…
- February 22, 2022Photo by Chris Wood / Flickr Houston’s Second Poet Laureate (2015–2017) and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters since 2019, Robin Davidson is the author of three books of poetry: K…
- January 11, 2022Giono’s hometown of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in southeastern France / Photo by Phil Richards / Flickr Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired…
- May 26, 2021Ewa Lipska / Photo by Włodzimierz Wasyluk / Culture.pl Released shortly before the death of Adam Zagajewski, Ewa Lipska’s Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021…
- May 11, 2021Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was shown as the premiere when the Forest Theatre in Gdańsk opened in 1911 / Photo by magro_kr / Flickr Anna Frajlich, who recently added to h…
- April 28, 2021Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost…
- March 17, 2021Images courtesy of Italo Lanfredini / italolanfredini.it Invitations The outside brick wall of La Silenziosa, Italo Lanfredini’s house-studio-open-air-museum near Commess…
- February 13, 2020Pachamama / Pichincha / Photo by Scipio Rocío Durán-Barba / Photo by Stephen Carls Rocío Durán-Barba is one of the most important voices of Latin American literature today. The author of…
- November 5, 2019My association with the work of Józef Wittlin started when Professor Anna Frajlich invited me to write a paper about Wittlin’s association with France for her 1996 Józef Wittlin conference at Columb…
- June 13, 2019Dany Laferrière was elected to the French Academy in 2013. Edwidge Danticat won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2018 and is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant…
- March 21, 2019Pierre and Marie Cayol To know Pierre and Marie Cayol is to enter an immediate circle of friendship that reaches far and wide and represents a towering monument of achievements, ties, and eve…
- September 13, 2018Hélène Dorion / Photo by Maxime G. Delisle - Background photo by Alexas_Photos / PixabayOne of the major themes throughout Quebecois writer Hélène Dorion’s work is her focus on the relationship betwee…
- September 6, 2018Falcon photo courtesy of Quentin Dr / UnsplashThe Poem to the PoetErase again! Farther lead this rhythmTo capture the cloud and the ploughshare,Slow is the night that looks through y…
- May 16, 2017Click here to read three poems by Joanna Pollakówna, never before translated into English.Joanna Pollakówna / Courtesy of Alice-Catherine CarlsJoanna Pollakówna (1939–2002) authored poems, bo…
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