Photo by Ervins Strauhmanis / Flickr 1 We maintain antiquity and elegance on paper; inside we are full of shame. We present heaven and hell on paper; our self-disgust res…

In Chan Koonchung’s The Fat Years, first published in Chinese in 2009 and translated into English in 2011, a novel depicting a dystopian contemporary China, people collectively forget impor…

Translators’ Note Acclaimed in China, Fang Qi has published two works: Elegy of a River Shaman and The Ivory Bed of the Princess. A long-term researcher of myt…

Christopher, Tania, and Isabelle Luna, “Mountains and Rain” (the hills of Fuzhou), September 2009 The Hills Overlooking FuzhouLooking north you see them,roads like ragged scars on hard lean ribs:…

Jack Homme, “Goddess of Democracy 1989,” 2009About FreedomFinishing the booze in the dead of night Then smashing the glass This is not freedomOpening the window Jumping out, but forgetting which fl…

Photo: Comfreak/PixabayNews, Reviews, and InterviewsArchivists discovered unpublished works by Pablo Neruda in 2014, and those works will be published in English this May in a collection titled Th…

Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss…

Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in…

Drew Wilson, “End of Amnesia,” 2009 1. Kazuo Ishiguro’s long-awaited The Buried Giant (2015), his first novel in ten years, is set in a mythologized fifth-century Britain in which pixies,…

Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Christine Zenino/FlickrNews, Reviews, and Interviews The Reykjavik International Literary Festival continues this weekend and features authors recently featured or re…

史国瑞 (Shi Guorui), “Shanghai,” 15–16 October 2004, unique camera obscura, gelatin silver print,129 x 440 cm. By permission of the photographer. In this YouTube video, he discusses the gen…

Painting from the General Yue Fei Memorial Temple, Hangzhou | Photo by ChrisjtseIt is puzzling that the closer China relates to the West, the more the West looks at everything Chinese as “other.” Of c…

A Review of Ancestral Intelligence, by Vera Schwarcz (Atrium House, 2013)Photo by Eki Ramadhan1Where thought could not be free,Death was a more welc…

This week, we said goodbye to a towering worldwide figure: Nelson Mandela. As a champion of peace, equality, and worldwide education, he touched the lives of many people around the world. A heartfelt…

From Pablo Neruda’s exhumation to Cairo’s first ever translation slam, this week’s lit links have it all!News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe New Yorker recently asked world…

This week’s links are full of linguistic appeal—dig into our literary finds, including pieces on translation, multilingual education, and poetry.News, Reviews, and InterviewsStork Pre…

Welcome to the first Friday Link Pool of 2013! We’ve gathered up all the fun and informative literary links we could find over the holidays (to help make up for how much we know you missed us, of cour…

This week's News, Reviews, and Interviews section is chock-full of new poetry, prose, and translations from around the world. Make sure you get your fill!News, Reviews, and Interviews…

A brand new month means all kinds of new beginnings in the world of literature. Enjoy the links this week, and don't forget to come back next week for your dose of literary news!News, Reviews,…

Mo Yan. Photo by Jonathan Stalling.Shortly after China woke up to the news on October 11 that a Chinese national had won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, a storm of discussion raged throughout C…