Photo of Timothy Schaffert by Michael LionstarI had coffee with one of Nebraska’s bookbinders a few months ago. A meeting I remember with gratitude. A gifted workman, Kevin started his career in tradi…
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Photo courtesy of the authorSet in a small Italian village in 1970, Maddalena Vaglio Tanet’s newly released debut novel, Untold Lessons (2024), tells the story of schoolteacher Silvia who, plagued by…
On September 17, 2024, Invisible Publishing will release Barrack Zailaa Rima’s graphic three-volume trilogy, Beirut, available in English for the first time in Carla Calargé and Alexandra Gueydan-Tur…
Still from Loznitsa’s documentary The InvasionFor three days in early March 2024, the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies at the University of Oklahoma hosted acclaimed Ukrainian film directo…
Photo of Elif Shafak by Ferhat ElikIn August, Knopf published Elif Shafak’s new novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky. In this story spanning centuries, three characters are connected by history, The Epi…
Photo of Gabriel Bump by Andrew RussellIn Gabriel Bump’s second novel, The New Naturals, people are seeking safety—safety from violence but also from the perils of capitalism, unsafe drinking water, f…
Photo by Peny DeltaBorn in London in 1997, Andrej Al-Asadi is among the foremost young poets writing in Macedonian today. In a conversation with Peter Constantine, he discusses his multicultural backg…
Photo of Mircea Cărtărescu courtesy of Deep VellumIn the world we live in, there are things that happen and things that should have occurred according to the simplest and most basic systems of natural…
Photo of Holocaust survivor Eva Weyl speaking to a young participant at the BVB-Lernzentrum in Dortmund / Christina WaltherBearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights th…
Artist Fitore Berisha Alísdóttir is an Albanian woman from Kosova who now divides her time between Kosova and Iceland. Her work exposes and condemns human-rights violations. Here, Eralda L. Lameborshi…
Etel Adnan, Freedom of People, Freedom of Animals, Freedom of Plants, Freedom of Nature, 2011, leporello, ink, color, and oil pastel on paper, cover: 18.1 x 12.3 cm; 24 pages, 17.8 x 11.3 cm;…
Katharina Oguntoye in front of a model for the Memorial for the Forgotten Souls / Photo courtesy of Carolyn GammonBearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts…
In March, Fonograf Editions published Isabel Zapata’s new bilingual collection, A Whale Is a Country, translated by Robin Myers. Animals appear throughout these poems and hybrid pieces, where we are a…
Photo of Bora Chung by Hye YoungThe author-translator duo shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize for Cursed Bunny have a new collection of stories, published in February. Author Bora Chun…
Brazilian crime-writer Patrícia Melo has a new novel available in English, translated from the Portuguese by Sophie Lewis. The Simple Art of Killing a Woman takes on femicide in Brazil, a justice syst…
Still from Tote/Abuelo / Courtesy of María SojobMaría Sojob, a Tsotsil filmmaker, visited the University of Oklahoma in November 2023 as part of the Mayan Film Festival organized by Carol Ros…
Photo by Martin DeeIn October 2023 Restless Books published a new, illustrated edition of Bram Stoker’s gothic masterpiece, Dracula, with a foreword by Alexander Chee and an introduction by Silvia Mor…
Photo by Adam K. GlaserIn E. J. Koh’s debut novel, The Liberators, the lives of two families over four generations play out against the backdrops and legacies of Japan’s occupation of Korea and the Ko…
Photo © by Baldur KristjanssonIn September 2023 Minotaur Books published Reykjavík: A Crime Story, co-written by Iceland’s prime minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, and Ragnar Jónasson, an Icelandic best-s…
Photo by Stacey ReynoldsBearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social jus…
Photo by UNL PhotographyChigozie Obioma, a Nigerian writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, took the literary world by surprise in 2015 when his debut novel, Th…
In February 2016, after the publication of his energetic, imaginative, Cairo-set novel, Using Life, Ahmed Naji became the first writer in Egyptian history to be imprisoned for “offending public morali…
Irina Flige / Courtesy of the authorIn April 2023 Irina Flige—director of the Research and Information Center “Memorial” in St. Petersburg, Russia, and a longtime board member of Memorial Internationa…
Writer, artist, and photographer Ibrahim Nasrallah was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were uprooted from their land in 1948. The author of fourteen poetry collections and twenty-four novels,…
Rita Chang-Eppig’s debut novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, tells the story of a woman who fights to survive and the cost that survival demands. Based on the real life of a Chinese pirate queen n…