Storyteller Toni Ann Johnson uses her skills as an actor, playwright, and fiction writer to tell powerful stories of race, reconciliation, and the effects of lingering racism. She is award-winning on…

Dewaine Farria belongs to the world. As a US Marine, he served in Jordan and Ukraine, and spent much of his professional life working for the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS),…

Photo © Laura Malmivaara A deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little Pike, a young woman has…

Born and raised in Khammam, a small town in the state of Telangana, India, Nishanth Injam published The Best Possible Experience, his debut short-story collection, in July 2023. He immigrated…

Children from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Towaoc, Colorado, study the Ute language using new e-learning platform Nuuwayga created by The Language Conservancy / Photo courtesy of TLC On Augus…

Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE Speakers Cornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, vis…

Photo by Moussa Kane “A Soul of Small Places,” by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo, made history recently when it emerged as the first jointly conceived story shortlisted for the Caine P…

  Photo by Lorraine Kinnear Tlotlo Tsamaase’s science fiction “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition),” which asserts a feminist agency and voice in a patriarchal and oppressive speculative world…

© Rosa Cunha Over the past fifteen years, I’ve had the pleasure of crossing paths with the peripatetic Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa on several occasions. In 2008 we were in conversatio…

Photo by Oluwafikunmi Kilanko Among the shortlisted short stories for this year’s edition of the Caine Prize for African writing is Yejide Kilanko’s “This Tangible Thing,” which narrates a ch…

The first week of July, the Caine Prize for African Writing released its shortlist for this year’s edition of the prize. Among the nominated short stories is Ekemini Pius’s “Daughters, By Our Hands,…

Kathryn Savage / Photo by Melissa Lukenbaugh Kathryn Savage’s Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 2022) explores the health harms of living in a polluted world. The essay, closer to poetic e…

Ivy Ngeow grew up in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and now makes her home in London. An architect and interior designer by trade, she is also a novelist with five books under her belt, the latest a thril…

Amy Spangler is the co-translator (with Nermin Menemencioğlu) of Leylâ Erbil’s A Strange Woman (Deep Vellum, 2022). The publisher describes A Strange Woman as “the pioneering deb…

The author’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin Award-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as “the book I have spent most of my life preparing…

Suzanne Berne has received praise for her astute character studies of the psychological dramas underlying seemingly serene domestic settings. Her debut novel, A Crime in the Neighborhood, won…

Photo by Pedro Soares Just published in March, The Drinker of Horizons (translated by David Brookshaw) brings to a close Mia Couto’s captivating Sands of the Emperor trilogy: The…

Photo by Carlette Girma Writer and editor Nicole Chung is the author of the best-selling memoir All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, 2018), the story of the search for her Korean birth family…

A path in Camp Thorpe, Goshen, Vermont / Photo by AdamChandler86 / Flickr Although it’s been nearly twelve years now since Ruth Stone died on November 19, 2011, I’m struck by how profound, po…

  Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the best-selling novel In Dependence (2008) and the multipl…

The Porvoo City Library / Photo by Tuomo Lindfors / Flickr Photo by Anna Kurki At thirty-two, Pajtim Statovci (b. 1990, Kosovo) is widely considered one of Finland’s leading young novelis…

  Nathalie Handal is lauded as “one of our most diverse and important contemporary poets.” A New Yorker of Mediterranean roots, she was raised in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, an…

In The Consequences (Graywolf Press, 2022), his third collection of short fiction, Manuel Muñoz continues telling the stories of migrant workers, seekers, and dreamers in the Central Valley…

Video still by Bill Viola for the Paris Opera’s production of Tristan und Isolde, 2004/2005. Photo by Kira Perov / Flickr After going for several long walks with Dennis Nurkse in sou…

Michelle Mirabella and Catalina Infante Beovic at the Women's March on 8M after the interview. Translator Michelle Mirabella interviews author Catalina Infante…