Photo: Flickr.com/people/nex230Do we need a special issue devoted solely to women writers? Indeed we do. Author and translator Alison Anderson explains why.Do we still need magazines…
Puterbaugh Essay Series
Made of iron, this scold’s bridle from Belgium dates from the 16th or 17th century. The strut of metal that went into the wearer’s mouth to hold down her tongue has broken off.If there’s…
The author’s father, Surinder Singh, onboardThe Southampton bound for England, 1958In the wake of her father’s death, a Malaysian author discovers the writer within and ends up writing he…
Ghassan Zaqtan (left) and Mahmoud Darwish in a 2007 photo taken by Palestinian poet Bashir Shalash.After presenting a sweeping landscape of Arabic poetry since pre-Islamic days—w…
A Bangladeshi writer traces his quest to dodge the external and internal censors and considers what fiction at its best can do: “sail past all censors to uncover the tender and transgress…
