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Chañaral is a small coastal city in the Atacama region of Chile. Devastating flash floods in 2015 caused an estimated $1.5 billion in damage to the region. Photo by jipe7.

Two Poems about Chile

July 31, 2017 |

Book under a tree

PEN America’s new online archive, poems for the National Park Service Centennial, and more

July 28, 2017 |

Nadia Murad speaking with a group of Yazidi women / Courtesy of Nadia’s Initiative

A Poem for Nadia Murad on World Trafficking Day

July 26, 2017 |

Landscaping painting. Pixabay

Translator as Medium

July 25, 2017 |

Mike Prince, “Black Drongo at Sunrise,” October 7, 2015

Three Poems from India

July 24, 2017 |

Person reading in the grass

An interactive digital spy novel, the 6 essay types you should know, and more

July 21, 2017 |

Maryam Mirzakhani

A Poem for Maryam Mirzakhani

July 20, 2017 |

A H T, “Goreme – Pasabag,” December 5, 2014

Three Poems from Australia

July 19, 2017 |

Charlotte Mandell

Absenting the Self: Charlotte Mandell on Translating Mathias Énard

July 18, 2017 |

Usha Akella

Reviving Identity with Travel: A Conversation with Usha Akella

July 17, 2017 |

Vive la République!: 14 French Words for Bastille Day

July 14, 2017 |

By Benjamin D. Maxham active 1848 - 1858 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Thoreau’s 200th birthday, the opening of Iran’s Book Garden, and more

July 14, 2017 |

Pages 201 from the “Anna Livia” chapter of Finnegans Wake. Illustration by Peter O'Brien

Cultural Cross Sections

Come into the Pictures: James Joyce, Illustrated

July 12, 2017 |

Like a Fading Shadow

New July Translations

July 11, 2017 |

Gary Burke, “Remembering 9/11,” September 11, 2014

Two Poems for the Fourth of July

July 04, 2017 |

Wally Gobetz, “Unisphere,” Corona Park, Flushing Meadows, New York, June 4, 2006

Cultural Cross Sections

Songs of My Foreign Accent

July 03, 2017 |

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