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:…
Interviews
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 productio…
Hélène Cardona. Photo: Paul SmithAs the world becomes increasingly and undeniably global, translation is more relevant than ever in reaching across borders to find both difference and common ground th…
Yoss. Photo: Restless BooksWhen 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 S…
Michelle PretoriusIt’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 herself…
Alan Moore. Photo: Joe BrownAlan 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 hou…
Carolyn Forché. Photo: Don J. UsnerThis 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 i…-
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 hou…
Photo: Jean-Luc Bertini/Pasco and Co.In March 2011, after peaceful protests began to emerge across Syria, pushing for government reform, Samar Yazbek witnessed what was a passive, civil uprising becom…
Lidija Dimkovska. Photo by Tihomir PinterIt’s 1984 and two twelve-year-old sisters are playing a sidewalk game in communist Yugoslavia, only these sisters are unique: they are conjoined twins, joined…
Q: Would you like to be called a “woman writer” or just a “writer”?A: When I was young, I didn’t like the title “woman writer”; but now I’ve accepted it, because that…
Alain Mabanckou. Photo by Shevaun Williams.During his visit to the University of Oklahoma in April, Alain Mabanckou sat down with Rokiatou Soumaré—a graduate student in OU’s Department of Modern Langu…
Illustration: Alec DempsterAgustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in Xa…
Viet Thanh Nguyen (photo by Bebe Jacobs), Andrew Lam, and Aimee Phan (photo by Julie Thi Underhill), respectively. Viet Thanh Nguyen became the first Vietnamese American writer to win the Pu…
Tomasz Różycki Photo: Slav ZatokaTomasz Różycki rose to both critical and popular prominence as an important voice of his generation in Poland when his fifth book, Twelve Stations, won the Ko…
Luis Alberto de Cuenca (b. 1950, Madrid) is perhaps the one Spanish poet today who has influenced most of the younger generations of poets. He recently received the National Poetry Award for his lates…
South Korean writer Han Kang photographed by Baik Dahum. Born in South Korea in 1970, Han Kang made her literary debut as a poet in 1993. She has since published novels and short fiction and w…
Wang Ping. Photo by Sara RubinsteinWang Ping emigrated to the US from China in 1986 and is currently a professor of English at Macalester College. She is a writer, poet, translator, photographer, and…
Han Kang. Photo by Baik Dahum.What are you currently reading? Victor I. Stoichita’s A Short History of the Shadow …
Hasan Ali Toptaş. Photo: buyukkeyif.comHasan Ali Toptaş is one of the most exciting contemporary writers of Turkish literature. His short stories and novels have won prestigious national awards.…
Nathalie Handal. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths.Groundbreaking poet, playwright, and editor Nathalie Handal is one of our most diverse contemporary writers, and as the Washington Independent Revi…
Born in 1959, David B. (B. is short for Beauchard) began working in comics and illustration around 1985. In 1990, with a group of six other artists, he co-founded L’Association, the most influential p…
Photo: Mary Evans/Oscar Elias/IberfotoPere Gimferrer i Torrens is a poet, novelist, translator, and critic with some fifty books to his name. Despite countless awards and the praise of such writers as…
