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The cover to The Freedom Factory juxtaposed with a photo of its author, Ksenia Buksha

What We Translate When We Translate Literature: On Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory

December 04, 2018 |

Poet Meena Alexander

Meena

November 26, 2018 |

A grove of trees, with the setting sun shining in from the right

Destigmatizing Mental Illness, One Poem at a Time

November 20, 2018 |

Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

11 Books for Tolerance & Understanding

November 16, 2018 |Alan Levenson, Daniel Simon

A redback spider hovers on a near-invisible web

Spider Babies Blowing

November 13, 2018 |

Two figures standing in a gauzy mist, holding hands with a lone tree looming ahead of them

Cultural Cross Sections

The BBC’s Top 100 Foreign Films: An Appreciation of Theo Angelopoulos’s Landscape in the Mist

November 06, 2018 |

Author Tankred Dorst standing in front of a painting of a road winding up a mountain

Cultural Cross Sections

White Asparagus: Remembering Tankred Dorst

November 05, 2018 |

The covers to Third Millennium Heart and Compass juxtaposed

News and Events

2018 ALTA National Translation Award Winners

November 02, 2018 |

A group of people with their faces painted white like skulls hold candles before an altar

Day of the Dead: A One-Act Real Life and Death Play, A Conversation with Playwright Robert Con Davis-Undiano

October 31, 2018 |

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In Gandhi’s Name

October 30, 2018 |

The cover to three books from list below with the texture of baseball field in the background

World Series Reads

October 23, 2018 |

The cover to Nebraska Poetry juxtaposed with a photo of editor Daniel Simon

News and Events

Daniel Simon Wins 2018 Nebraska Book Award

October 22, 2018 |

A teacup sits, out of focus, next to a book on a table.

Mrs. Black (an excerpt)

October 19, 2018 |

Photo © Marshall W. Johnson

News and Events

Margarita Engle Named Winner of the 2019 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature

October 09, 2018 |

Cultural Cross Sections

Upon Learning That My Book Is Banned in Kuwait

October 10, 2018 |

The cover to Matthew Turner's book Sweden with a photo of Turner juxtaposed

A Playlist for Sweden

October 04, 2018 |

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