News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis year marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tomas Tranströmer receiving the Neustadt Prize, and we were saddened to hear he passed away last week. Read his poem…
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- News, Reviews, and Interviews March 8 was International Women’s Day. This list gives a brief background into the 13 women who have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since its start in 1901.…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsTo kick off National Reading Month, Time magazine compiled a list of 15 life-changing books you can read in one day.Over 150 international poets, authors, and tra…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsA historian unearthed new work from Sherlock Holmes found in his attic. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the short story as a fundraiser to help save a town bridge.The U.S. Po…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsTurns out Harper Lee isn't the only one with unpublished manuscripts. Three more works by Dr.…
- News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe Israel Prize for Literature might not be granted this year because all of the judges resigned to protest the Prime Minister’s Office.The Folio Pr…
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Photos by Laura HernandezClimbing up the steep and narrow staircase to the hidden apartment is when it hits me: Anne Frank lived here; this is where she spent two years, secluded, waiting for…
- These five recent translations from four languages will take you from a big-game park in a place called “Jezoosalem” to a Santiago suburb, and you won’t want to miss the stops in between. The Tun…
- Katniss Everdeen of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy is just one recent example among many brave, inspiring female protagonists in young adult fiction. Today we extend our gaze acro…