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Interviews
Photo of Holocaust survivor Eva Weyl speaking to a young participant at the BVB-Lernzentrum in Dortmund / Christina Walther Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highligh…
Artist Fitore Berisha Alísdóttir is an Albanian woman from Kosova who now divides her time between Kosova and Iceland. Her work exposes and condemns human-rights violations. Here, Eralda L. Lameborshi…
Etel Adnan, Freedom of People, Freedom of Animals, Freedom of Plants, Freedom of Nature, 2011, leporello, ink, color, and oil pastel on paper, cover: 18.1 x 12.3 cm; 24 pages, 17.8 x 11.3 c…
Katharina Oguntoye in front of a model for the Memorial for the Forgotten Souls / Photo courtesy of Carolyn Gammon Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the ef…
In March, Fonograf Editions published Isabel Zapata’s new bilingual collection, A Whale Is a Country, translated by Robin Myers. Animals appear throughout these poems and hybrid pieces, where we are a…
Photo of Edel Rodriguez by Mecky Creus In Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey (Metropolitan, 2023), acclaimed artist Edel Rodriguez illustrates a story of displacement, lo…
Photo of Bora Chung by Hye Young The author-translator duo shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize for Cursed Bunny have a new collection of stories, published in February. Author Bora…
Brazilian crime-writer Patrícia Melo has a new novel available in English, translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman takes on femicide in Brazil, a justice syst…
Still from Tote/Abuelo / Courtesy of María Sojob María Sojob, a Tsotsil filmmaker, visited the University of Oklahoma in November 2023 as part of the Mayan Film Festival organized by Caro…
Photo by Martin Dee In October 2023 Restless Books published a new, illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s gothic masterpiece, Dracula, with a foreword by Alexander Chee and an introduction by Silvi…
Photo by Adam K. Glaser In E. J. Koh’s debut novel, The Liberators, the lives of two families over four generations play out against the backdrops and legacies of Japan’s occupation of Korea and t…
Photo © by Baldur Kristjansson In September 2023 Minotaur Books published Reykjavík: A Crime Story, co-written by Iceland’s prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and Ragnar Jónasson, an Icelandic b…
Photo by Stacey Reynolds Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of socia…
Photo by UNL Photography Chigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, took the literary world by surprise in 2015 when his debut nove…
Photo by Rodrigo Jardón Jazmina Barrera’s first novel, Cross-Stitch, translated by Christina MacSweeney, is an engrossing story of three friends as they come of age in Mexico City and while travel…
In February 2016, after the publication of his energetic, imaginative, Cairo-set novel, Using Life, Ahmed Naji became the first writer in Egyptian history to be imprisoned for “offending public morali…
Photo by Angela Blankenship In Etaf Rum’s second novel, Evil Eye, a young Palestinian American artist and mother of two contends with the effects of intergenerational trauma and her complicated re…
Oscar Hokeah’s Calling for a Blanket Dance, a cutting novel about challenge, resilience, and the support of one’s community, won the 2023 PEN America/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and was named a fi…
Javier Fuentes’s debut novel, Countries of Origin, finds pastry chef Demetrio leaving the US and returning to his birth country, Spain. On the flight to Madrid, he meets Jacobo, which begins a will-th…
Irina Flige / Courtesy of the author In April 2023 Irina Flige—director of the Research and Information Center “Memorial” in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a longtime board member of Memorial Internat…
Writer, artist, and photographer Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were uprooted from their land in 1948. The author of fourteen poetry collections and twenty-four novels,…
Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, tells the story of a woman who fights to survive and the cost that survival demands. Based on the real life of a Chinese pirate queen n…
As an eminent poet, translator, man of letters, teacher, anthologist, literary ambassador, family man, and clear-eyed witness to America’s zeitgeist and character over the past half century, Robert Pi…
Norman Erikson Pasaribu’s first collection of short stories, Happy Stories, Mostly, was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and published, in Tiffany Tsao’s English translation, in…
