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“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…
Interviews
July 31, 2023
July 27, 2023Photo 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…
July 25, 2023© 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…
July 24, 2023Photo 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…
July 20, 2023The 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,…
July 20, 2023Kathryn 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…
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 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…
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 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…
April 4, 2023Photo 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…
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, po…
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 multipl…
November 21, 2022The 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…
October 19, 2022Nathalie 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…
October 3, 2022In 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…
September 6, 2022Video 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…
August 1, 2022Michelle Mirabella and Catalina Infante Beovic at the Women's March on 8M after the interview. Translator Michelle Mirabella interviews author Catalina Infante…
July 27, 2022Over the past decade or so, the Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra (b. 1975) has emerged as one of the most inventive and influential writers of his generation. Named to Granta’s Best…
June 21, 2022Photo of David Baker by Katherine Baker With the 2022 publication of Whale Fall (W.W. Norton), his thirteenth book of poetry, David Baker continues to explore the natural world as bo…
June 8, 2022Photo by Tennessee Reed Since becoming a newspaper columnist at sixteen, Ishmael Reed has been a literary force. The author of over thirty titles, including the acclaimed novel…
May 23, 2022Left: Holly Wilson, Carried in the Wind (2019), 19 x 32 x 3 in., unique cast bronze with patina/ Courtesy of the artist / hollywilson.com Right: Holly Wilson, Girl in the…
May 11, 2022Image Courtesy of National Park Service In the fall of 2021, I taught a special-topics course on Native women writers, featuring the works of Diane Glancy, Louise Erdrich, and Joy Harjo.…
April 25, 2022Photo of Rajiv Mohabir by Jordan Miles During the University of California Riverside’s 45th Writers Week in February 2022, Rajiv Mohabir read from his book of poems…
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