A dizzying debut with something to say and a story to tell, David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020) takes crime novel conventions and recasts them in a fresh, uniquely Native…

Helene Tursten An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good Soho Crime Trans. Marlaine Delargy I first picked up Swedish writer Helene Tursten’s collection of stories for its title and for its length; I…

Juan Felipe Herrera. Photo by Oregon State University/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews  On July 8, US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera published what he called a “sudden poem” on Poets.org in re…

News, Reviews, and Interviews  Translator Deborah Smith describes how publishing is an industry but translation is a community.  Filmmaker Cordula Kablitz-Post has been awarded the NDR Young Talent P…

A cover feature on Iranian exile lit featuring Moniro Ravanipour, Omid Fallahazad, Mohsen Emadi, and Mana Neyestani, guest-edited by Persis Karim  plus Roberto Fernández Retamar’s reading rec…

News, Reviews, and Interviews We sadly note the passing of two literary greats this week: first, former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away at the age of 80; second, Egypt…

News, Reviews, and Interviews French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature.  Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor’s…

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…