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Samoylov as a soldier in the Red Army in the 1940s

A Poem from Russia

September 26, 2017 |

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

A Poem for Cassini

September 20, 2017 |

A still from Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou

The Complex and Comic Life of Luis Buñuel

September 18, 2017 |

Coffee and a book on a table

Friday Lit Links: Week of September 15

September 15, 2017 |

Gillie Rhodes, “Log pile,” November 7, 2009

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

Humble Beginnings Make Solid Roots: A Conversation with Stanley Gazemba

September 11, 2017 |

2018 Neustadt Prize finalists

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

A Poem from the Americas

September 07, 2017 |

Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya

A Poem from China in Memory of Liu Xiaobo

September 06, 2017 |

2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists

News and Events

2018 Neustadt Prize Finalists Announced

September 05, 2017 |

A wall of books with a blue door.

The Mountain Echoes Literary Festival in Bhutan, five books making headlines this week, and more

September 01, 2017 |

Photo print in a living room

A Poem from Oklahoma

August 30, 2017 |

Ekin Oklap

Translating into Familiarity: A Conversation with Ekin Oklap

August 29, 2017 |

Man reading on a bench

NPR’s “Rough Translation” podcast, a Sherman Alexie poem on the current state of America, and more

August 25, 2017 |

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