This week was full of exciting new discoveries and announcements. Below you'll find links to excerpts of 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan's writing, a new short story from the archives of David Foster Walla…
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Author’s note: It begins with a chance encounter at an airport and ends with a crash that no one walks away from.…
Melissa Weininger’s Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Wayne State University Press, 2023) is a…
Artist Self-Portrait
While war, injustice, and spiritual fatigue continue to poison the air, Yahia Lababidi finds a beauty-infused…
Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is…
Albert Cossery / Courtesy of New Directions
The end of June marked the anniversary of the death of Albert Cossery (1913–2008), a French-speaking…
