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Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu.
On April 17, 2025, I spoke with poet Nikola Madžirov at the New York Public Library’s…
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…
