Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was published on February 20 by Bloomsbury. In this indepen…
Interviews
February 20, 2024
December 6, 2023Two-time Pushcart Prize nominee Miho Kinnas recently published Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias, her third book of poetry. Her two other collections, Today, Fish Only (2015)…
November 29, 2023Darlington Chibueze Anuonye and his mother, July 2005, on the occasion of Anuonye’s primary school graduationDarlington Chibueze Anuonye, a writer and the nonfiction editor of Ngiga Review,…
October 25, 2023Photo by Harrikrisna AnendenAnanda Devi is a noted francophone poet, writer, ethnologist, translator, and occasional scriptwriter for the movie adaptations to her short stories and novels. Born in Mau…
October 17, 2023Storyteller 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…
October 11, 2023Dewaine 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),…
September 18, 2023Photo © Laura MalmivaaraA deadly curse, mythical creatures, and a murder investigation: in Juhani Karila’s English-language debut, Fishing for the Little Pike, a young woman has much to c…
September 11, 2023Born 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…
Finding Hope in Language Revitalization: A Conversation with The Language Conservancy’s Wilhelm Meya
August 31, 2023Children 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 TLCOn August 9,…
August 30, 2023Dr. Cornel West / Courtesy of AAE SpeakersCornel West, who recently retired from Princeton University as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, visited…
July 31, 2023Photo 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 Prize for A…
July 27, 2023Photo by Lorraine KinnearTlotlo Tsamaase’s science fiction “Peeling Time (Deluxe Edition),” which asserts a feminist agency and voice in a patriarchal and oppressive speculative world, was shortlist…
July 25, 2023© Rosa CunhaOver 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 conversation at…
July 24, 2023Photo by Oluwafikunmi KilankoAmong 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 child’s jour…
July 20, 2023Photo by Offlong EkpenyongThe 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 “…
July 20, 2023Kathryn Savage / Photo by Melissa LukenbaughKathryn Savage’s Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 2022) explores the health harms of living in a polluted world. The essay, closer to poetic elegy…
July 19, 2023Ivy 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…
July 6, 2023Amy 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…
May 30, 2023The author’s mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlinAward-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as “the book I have spent most of my life preparing to w…
May 24, 2023Suzanne 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…
April 13, 2023Photo by Pedro SoaresJust 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 story of…
April 4, 2023Photo by Carlette GirmaWriter 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 and…
January 12, 2023A 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, poignant,…
January 9, 2023Sarah 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 multiple short…
November 21, 2022The Porvoo City Library / Photo by Tuomo Lindfors / Flickr Photo by Anna KurkiAt thirty-two, Pajtim Statovci (b. 1990, Kosovo) is widely considered one of Finland’s leading young novelists. His three…
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