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Chris Abani is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter whose awards include the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, a Hurston/Wright Lega…
Interviews
photo: Kodansha (Kiyoshi Mori) Masatsugu Ono is a Japanese writer based in Tokyo and the author of numerous novels, including Mizu ni umoreru haka (The water-covered grave), whi…
photo: shevaun williams / shevaun williams & associates I had the privilege of sitting down with Marilyn Nelson the day before she was awarded the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Liter…
photo: joe mazza Kathleen Rooney is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including the novel O, Democracy! and the novel in poems Robinson Alone. With E…
photo: hayley madden Born to an English mother and a Jamaican-Chinese father, Hannah Lowe is the author of Chick (2013), which celebrates the multicultural life of London and i…
Maureen Freely is currently the president of English PEN and a writer, translator, and the head of the Department of English at the University of Warwick. Freely is the English translator of five n…
Emmy Pérez is a Chicana poet and writer. She grew up in Santa Ana, California, and graduated from the University of Southern California. She later attended Columbia University where she…
Jia Pingwa is a globally renowned Chinese writer who has lived through and written about major changes in Chinese society since 1978 when China launched the reform and opening-up policy. Bo…
Photo: Eleni Kefala For more, read a poem by Eleni Kefala Eleni Kefala has published two volumes of poetry, Mními kai parallayés (2007; Memory and variations),…
Photo © Donna Lee Born in Indonesia in 1957 to Chinese parents, Li-Young Lee is a major poet with four collections, including The City in Which I Love You (1990), From Blos…
In her landmark interdisciplinary study of African diaspora religious systems through dance performances, Yvonne Daniel considers three religious systems that rely heavily on dance behav…
Photo: Karen Van Dyck Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translati…
Photo by Mateusz Skwarczek After finishing a master’s degree in physics and writing her thesis on the Higgs-Boson particle, Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967, Istanbul) work…
Harvey Dunn, I Am the Resurrection and the Life, 1926 / Courtesy South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota For more, read two new poems by Ted Kooser. While in Lincoln to attend the r…
Left to Right: Laleh Khadivi, Sholeh Wolpé, and Persis Karim joined around Karim’s kitchen table to discuss their contributions to Iranian diaspora literature. Persis Karim, a poet and the editor of…
Prolific poet Simon Armitage (b. 1963, Marsden, UK) is also a novelist, playwright, lyricist, librettist, translator, and author of several books of nonfiction. In this interview, conduc…
A family man, father of three, martial arts aficionado, and longtime acolyte of Charles Bukowski, Karl Marx, and North American crime writers, Kike is known for his crime fiction. Photo:…
Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), Running Trio, digital illustration, 11 × 17 in / Courtesy of the artist (www.arigonstarr.com) A central yet surprisingly undernoted facet of Native arts production i…
Hélène Cardona. Photo: Paul Smith As the world becomes increasingly and undeniably global, translation is more relevant than ever in reaching across borders to find both difference and common ground…
Yoss. Photo: Restless Books When we were together in Cuba in early 2015, I took a photo of Yoss tenderly holding a kitten we encountered in Old Havana. When I later asked him about life during Cuba’s…
Michelle Pretorius It’s 2010 in Unie, South Africa, and Constable Alet Berg is in search of her rise from disgrace. Banished from Jo’burg’s Special Forces Unit to a rural community, Berg finds hersel…
Alan Moore. Photo: Joe Brown Alan Moore is the most celebrated comics writer living but doesn’t write comics anymore. For the past decade, he’s been working instead on his second novel, Jerusalem…
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house…
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. Usner This three-part interview with Carolyn Forché took place over the course of the past year and a half and was recorded at three different locations: Carolyn’s house…
