Lamar Babi, who plays Matthew (Niran's neighbor and love interest), enjoys a pomegranate while Niran's family gathers over a meal set on the floor / Photo by Kenneth Moss
Born in Baghdad…
Film
November 3, 2021
March 18, 2021Jasna Đuričić, in her role as Aida Selmanagic, from Jasmila Zbanic's film, Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) A war refugee from Bosnia now living, writing, and teaching…
January 27, 2021A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives…
November 4, 2020Andrzej Sapkowski The Last Wish Trans. Danusia Stok Sword of Destiny Trans. David French Orbit “And our destiny. It isn’t a fairy story, it’s real l…
October 8, 2019The film ends where it all begins: like a fable that devours its own tail in order to explain how we always return to our origins. Using this age-old though useful device, Pedro Almodóvar has achie…
June 24, 2016News, 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 T…
June 22, 2016Was Lou Andreas-Salomé a writer or a muse, a feminist or a femme fatale? A new film by Cordula Kablitz-Post looks at one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals—and at her complicated life.…
February 24, 2016Géza Röhrig in Son of SaulNominated for a 2016 Best Foreign Language Oscar, Hungary’s Son of Saul has been called “the film to beat.” Here in her review essay,…
December 2, 2015As a longtime practitioner of the art of fiction writing and a committed reader of the works of others, I have been thinking a great deal about the impact of the proliferating film/TV industry on the…- January 23, 2015News, Reviews, and InterviewsThis week, author Valeria Luiselli sat down with NPR to talk about why she chooses to have her work translated, despite being bilingual. (Luiselli’s forth…
December 22, 2014in memoriam Kenny Kahn From the archive of Eugenia Huerta Bravo.A trio of important Mexican writers was born in 1914: Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, and Efraín Huerta. In the English-langu…- August 8, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsSince 2011, fierce Taliban rule in Pakistan has silenced traditional Pashtun poets. Now, migrating from the region, a group of about 50 poets are defying…
June 13, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsA new film, “Write Down, I Am an Arab,” will tell the story behind Mahmoud Darwish’s greatest love affair, with a Jewish woman he fell fo…- May 31, 2013From 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…
April 24, 2013The Man from Snowy River (1982, Australia)Director: George Miller; Screenplay: Cul Cullen, John Dixon; Poem: Banjo Patterson (same title)Jim Craig is eighteen when his father dies, and to kee…
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