Burggarten, Allee bei Schneelage, Österreich, Wien, 1. Bezirk.
AS I ENTERED the Burggarten on a snowy evening, I noticed a life-size statue of a monk when a large midnight-blue butte…
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Ling Ma Severance Farrar, Straus and Giroux Severance is a zombie apocalypse tale, a workplace comedy, and a classic coming-of-age story al…
In the world of translation, especially as a translator of color myself, I find it important to read both translations and writings that are about various languages (including emotions), about acknowl…
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB “When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting science fictio…
Leonid Pasternak, Boris beside the Baltic at Mereküla (1910), oil on canvas In August 2021 University of Oklahoma alumnus Ron K. Jones donated a letter that he had received in 1959 from…
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Peter Stamm The Sweet Indifference of the World Trans. Michael Hofman Other Press “PLEASE COME TO Skogskyrkogården tomorro…
THE NOVELISTS Pat Barker and Douglas Stuart were both born into poverty, victims of the de-industrialization that swept like a wrecking ball through the British Isles during the secon…
IF YOU SEE this city for the first time, it may seem as if it has just sprung to life overnight, such is its chaotic charm; it sits atop an elevated earth at three thousand meters ab…
THERE ARE SOME moments in life when, upon entering a room, you realize you have stumbled upon that disturbing border where passion rubs up against obsession. In Baku, Azerbaijan, tha…
I’VE BEEN THINKING a lot about how much of my own writing resembles “correspondences,” as my friend calls it, whether being conversations with visual artists such as Agnes Martin or E…
View from the poet’s roof, Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little TO VIST THE Ch’ol poet Juana Peñate Montejo’s house in Chiapas, Mexico, requires several flights, at least th…
Hwang Sok-yong The Prisoner: A Memoir Trans. Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur Verso, 2021 Written by renowned Korean author and famous democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong,…
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I THINK I WILL FOREVER be just a little bit in love with young adult (YA) literature, no matter how old I get. While I’m not terribly discriminatory about genres, I do have steadfast…
THE FACT THAT Mehrnaz Shirazi Adl’s story “Anahita” has made it to English-language readers is, in itself, a bit of a miracle. Due to wide-reaching sanctions on Iran, here in the US…
In the children’s market, very little is translated into English from languages beyond western Europe, and until very recently Korean children’s books, for all their vibrancy and stunning artwork,…
“African Renaissance Monument” by pennstatenews is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 LIKE A PILLOW that has burst its seams, Dakar overflows with an excess of life. The resultant drift…
IT WAS IN THE BATHROOMS of the Sanborns restaurant, near what is today the Somos Voces (We are voices) bookstore, where Adonis García, the hustler-protagonist of Luis Zapata’s now-cl…
THE LATEST BOOK by environmental writer Richard Heinberg finds him working with familiar material but with a new and insightful twist. In Power (New Society, 2021), Heinberg…
Installation View at Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA, 2016 Wang Xiaosong’s essay unpacks the design philosophy of contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s major works. What is notable in Xu’s…
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