Mia Couto photographed by Shevaun Williams, October 2014.The Mia Couto short-story collection I’m currently translating, entitled Estórias Abensonhadas (working title: Selected S…
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January 28, 2015View of Stockholm, Sweden, from the Södermalm district. Photo by J. A. Alcaide.In a corner of Stockholm, the Argentinean father of someone who was once, briefly, my lover, stumbles against the gr…- December 12, 2014News, Reviews, and InterviewsAn exciting new discovery was recently made in Northern China: a tomb, dated approximately 1,000 years old, contained no human remains, but was filled wit…
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