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Fatou Diome / Courtesy of frenchculture.org
Cultural Cross Sections

Senegalese Migrant Novelist Fatou Diome Is Now the Militant Marianne

October 04, 2017 |
This poster was published in a special issue of Rocinante in 1971. The entire issue was dedicated to Valdivia on the second anniversary of her death.
On Translation

La Comandante Maya: Rita Valdivia on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of Che Guevara

October 03, 2017 |
Mural in Cochabamba, Bolivia / Photo by proyecto mARTadero
Poetry

Five Bilingual Poems from Bolivia

October 03, 2017 |
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Banned Books Week, International Translation Day, and the WLT Translation Prize

September 29, 2017 |
Jacqueline Williams (Aunt Ester) and Alfred H. Wilson (Solly Two Kings) in the 2015 Court Theatre production of Gem of the Ocean / Photo by Michael Brosilow
Interviews

Religion and Redemption in the Plays of August Wilson: A Conversation with Riley Keene Temple

September 27, 2017 |
Samoylov as a soldier in the Red Army in the 1940s
Poetry

A Poem from Russia

September 26, 2017 |
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Week of September 22

September 22, 2017 |
This view of Saturn’s rings from the “ringscape finale” series was among the last images Cassini sent back to Earth (September 13, 2017) / Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Poetry

A Poem for Cassini

September 20, 2017 |
A still from Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou
Book Reviews

The Complex and Comic Life of Luis Buñuel

September 18, 2017 |
Coffee and a book on a table
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: Week of September 15

September 15, 2017 |
Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009
Poetry

Three Poems for Autumn

September 13, 2017 |
Mestizos Come Home
News and Events

Robert Con Davis-Undiano’s book Mestizos Come Home! wins 2017 International Latino Book Award

September 12, 2017 |
Left: Stanley Gazemba. Right: Book cover for Forbidden Fruit
Interviews

Humble Beginnings Make Solid Roots: A Conversation with Stanley Gazemba

September 11, 2017 |
2018 Neustadt Prize finalists
Lit Lists

Friday Lit Links: 2018 Neustadt Prize finalists and the “book women” on horseback

September 08, 2017 |
Grave at the US/Mexico border taken at a cemetery near Anthony, New Mexico, July 19, 2015 / Photo by Lanie Elizabeth
Poetry

A Poem from the Americas

September 07, 2017 |
Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya
Poetry

A Poem from China in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

September 06, 2017 |