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Jeremy Tiang posing in front of materials at the London Book Fair

Serving as the London Book Fair’s Literary Translation Avatar: A Conversation with Jeremy Tiang

March 19, 2019 |

A painting of a brown dog with just his head emerging from brown waters

Quinta del Sordo

March 14, 2019 |

A black and white photo of Sylvia Plath with her bicycle smiling at the camera

Sylvia Plath’s Fertile and Flowering World

March 12, 2019 |

A black and white photo of a small boat dock surrounded by water, which stretches unbroken to the horizon

Daseyn: A Theater of the Mind

March 07, 2019 |

Coffee dregs sitting at the bottom of a red cup, as shot from above

Three Romanian Poems

March 05, 2019 |

An oil painting of a house surrounded by woodlands. The paint is very heavily layer, creating texture at the surface.

“Suffering Memory”: The Unseen Worlds of Marilène Phipps

February 28, 2019 |

A statue of a reclining figure in a cemetery

Five Catalan Poems

February 26, 2019 |

A sculpted bust of the minotaur, who seems boyish and frail

Two Poems

February 21, 2019 |

A desultory looking bar, decked with neon signs, presumably in Las Vegas

Two Vegas Poems

February 19, 2019 |

An aqueous looking figure supports another figure rendered in reds and browns

Healing the Wounded: A Conversation with Artist Florine Démosthène

February 14, 2019 |

A woman stands in front of a wall covered in newspaper articles, holding up a tan colored globe that covers her face

A Voice of Passion for Global Literatures: Svend Erik Larsen’s Border-Shifting World

February 12, 2019 |

An ornately set table for the Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Cultural Cross Sections

Celebrating Lunar New Year with the Vo Family

February 07, 2019 |

Water lilies floating on the surface of blue water

A Post Office without a Country

February 04, 2019 |

Packaged foods hang uniformly from wall pegs in a Japanese convenience store

In Murata Sayaka’s Convenience Store, a Microcosm of Japanese Society

January 31, 2019 |

A sculpted angel throws herself across a grave in a show of grief

Two Poems

January 29, 2019 |

The covers to The Carrying, The Overstory, and The Beekeeper juxtaposed in a tryptich

The 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Shortlist: A Salute

January 25, 2019 |

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