I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her…

Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia The satirist and poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir (…

Pioneer Summer, also referred to in English as “Summer in a Pioneer Necktie,” is a queer romance written in Russian in 2016 by Ukrainian…

Friedrich Schleiermacher, in his 1813 lecture On the Different Methods of Translating, famously proposed that translators face two paths: to…

Venita Blackburn is a faculty member in the creative writing program at California State University, Fresno, and the founder and president of…