At the heart of my conversation with Singapore-born, US-educated, Paris-based writer, translator, musician, and artist Fiona Sze-Lorrain are two of her latest publications. Her novel in stories,…
Interviews
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January 15, 2026The Clara Luper Teachers’ Institute cohort stands together beneath the portrait of civil rights pioneer Clara Luper, committed to teaching Oklahoma’s civil rights history and the legacy of the… -
January 13, 2026Kristi Williams works with a student at Black History Saturdays, the free monthly program she founded in Tulsa to teach Black history that Oklahoma public schools cannot. The intergenerational… -
December 2, 2025Jonas Elbousty Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) is considered among the most ambiguous twentieth-century authors in the Arab world due to his bold depictions of Tangier’s underbelly and its worl… -
November 20, 2025Jeffrey Round is an award-winning Toronto author, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker. His books include the seven-volume Lambda-winning Dan Sharp mysteries, the Bradford Fairfax comic mysteries, th… -
October 15, 2025Megha Sood is an award-winning Asian American author, poet, editor, curator, and literary activist from New Jersey. She is the author of four poetry collections and has co-edited award-winning antholo… -
September 25, 2025Photo by Sam Plott Teo’s Durumi (Zando, 2025), the latest book in Elaine U. Cho’s adventure-filled Alliance series, follows a tightknit crew as they battle for justice in the solar… -
September 18, 2025Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu. On April 17, 2025, I spoke with poet Nikola Madžirov at the New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, following… -
September 17, 2025I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her to send me some of her work, she linked to her short… -
September 10, 2025Venita Blackburn is a faculty member in the creative writing program at California State University, Fresno, and the founder and president of the Live, Write workshop, an organization devoted to… -
September 2, 2025Mel Pennant / Photo by Gemma Day Mel Pennant, known primarily as a playwright and screenwriter, published her debut novel, A Murder for Miss Hortense (Pantheon) in June 2025,… -
August 20, 2025Eleanor Wilner / Photo by J. J. Tiziou / Academy of American Poets Eleanor Wilner is a much-recognized member of the American literary community, long active in the practice of poetry–… -
August 14, 2025Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a translator of Polish into English and the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish literature abroad. She is widely known as a transl… -
August 5, 2025Alejandro Puyana didn’t anticipate his debut novel, Freedom Is a Feast (Little Brown, 2024), coinciding with daily headlines about deportations of Venezuelans from the US. Yet he is intimatel… -
July 31, 2025Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish and ultimately have to flee their homes in the hope… -
July 17, 2025Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is also a freelance journalist who has written extensive… -
July 15, 2025Photo by Joe Abriatis Claire Jia’s debut novel, Wanting, was published by Tin House on July 1. It tells the story of a rejuvenated friendship between two young women, Lian and… -
June 20, 2025Karen Fang is professor of English at the University of Houston and author of the new book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus Wong (Rutgers University Press, 2025), which is… -
June 3, 2025Photo of Kristen Arnett by Maria Rada I encountered Kristen Arnett’s work soon after the publication of her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, when I picked it up in a bookstore… -
May 19, 2025Photo of Roohi Choudhry by Shiva Muthiah Roohi Choudhry’s debut novel, Outside Women, braids the stories of two women: Hajra, a Pakistani scholar in the US in the late 1990s a… -
April 25, 2025Photo by Demianastur / Adobe Stock The excess of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Living (Milkweed, 2025), and at the foreground: motherhood, debt… -
March 20, 2025Illustrations by Cuauhtémoc Wetzka / Courtesy of Restless Books Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems (Restless Books, 2025), by Ilan Stavans, is a collection of… -
February 19, 2025Mariana Sabino’s debut short-story collection, The Verdigris Stories, transports readers to many different countries. This collection of loosely linked stories features characters searching for a… -
February 17, 2025Since the moment we became readers, we have always thought that to interpret the most profound ideas of a literary work—from the multiple creations of scientific theories to the perpetual scenarios of… -
January 23, 2025Mario Meléndez / Photo by Marco Ugarte Regarded as one of the most original voices of the new Latin American poetry, Mario Meléndez (b. 1971) is a Chilean poet born in Linares. Among…
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