Mexican author Mónica Lavín’s first book available in English, Meaty Pleasures, is a collection of twelve stories translated by D. P. Snyder and edited by Michelle Rosen (2021). Sn…
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Han river in Seoul We asked writers and translators two questions: What is the book, available in English, that best evokes Seoul? What is a favorite Seoul bookstore? Here are their answe… -
In Olga Dies Dreaming (2022), Xochitl Gonzalez’s best-selling debut novel, Hurricane Maria reunites a long-absent mother with her two adult children, a New York City wedding planner and… -
Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian author and psychiatrist recognized for her fictional works al-Ṭābūr (2013; Eng. The Queue, 2016; reviewed in WLT) and… -
Laura Larson, Augustine’s Escape, Digital Color Photograph, 2019 In City of Incurable Women (Saint Lucy Books, 2022), Laura Larson continues her study of nineteenth-century… -
Holocaust Concept Jewish Shoes For Remembrance Day, Auschwitz Birkenau Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a new and dynamic poetic voice from Poland, with six volumes of poetry and several translati… -
Fulton Leroy Washington (aka Mr. Wash), Emancipation Proclamation (2014) / Courtesy of the artist / ARTBYWASH.COM The story of how Fulton Leroy Washington became an internationally a… -
Author of The Famished Road, among other books, Ben Okri has never been a run-of-the-mill writer. He has been hailed as “a literary and social visionary,” and his oeuvre—novels, plays, poet… -
Photo by pixarno – stock.adobe.com I first came across Maša Kolanović’s illustrated novel, Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie), written in Croatian and published by VBZ in 2008, a… -
Jennifer Wong is a poet, critic, and translator based in the UK. Her first two poetry collections, Summer Cicadas (2006) and Goldfish (2013), were published by Chameleon Press… -
Amitava Kumar, The Heart of the City / A Cemetery / of Grief. Inspired by Naveen Kishore’s poem “Kashmiriyat” in his new collection, Knotted Grief. … -
Felix Lembersky, Execution: Babyn Yar (1952), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 46 3/8 in. / Private collection Yelena Lembersky (b. 1969) grew up in Leningrad at a time when Jews were sta… -
Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little The following interview was conducted in Ch’ol at the poet’s house in Tumbalá, Mexico, on January 7, 2022. Little and Friedman’s translations… -
The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars, and thr… -
Antonello da Messina, Saint Jerome in His Study (ca. 1475), oil on lime, 45.7 x 36.2cm / Reproduced by permission of the National Gallery, London Henrietta Rose-Innes is a South African a… -
Masiyaleti Mbewe, “Tove the Guardian,” Niko n D7000, 3/4 (First Edition), 2018 Masiyaleti Mbewe is a Zambian queerfuturist writer, photographer, and activist raised in Botswana and curren… -
Photo by Catherine Hélie © Editions Gallimard Noémi Lefebvre is a multitalented writer. She studied music, received a PhD in music education and national identity in France and Germa… -
Reem Khader, Faces Offshoot / Courtesy of the artist In her novel Minor Detail, Palestinian author Adania Shibli sculpts—with trenchant words—a fragile memorial for a Be… -
Maher Naji, Palestinian Girl in Jerusalem Dress / Courtesy of the artist I’ve been thinking about literary imprints lately, and how difficult it is to discern the books of one ho… -
Cloud Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash & Ingrid Rojas Contreras Photo by Jeremiah Barber Days after a bicycle crash that would erase her memory for two months, Ingrid Rojas Contrera… -
Photo by Hernan Zenteno I first came across Eric Schierloh’s multifaceted cultural artisanry imprint Barba de Abejas (Bee beard) when I was gifted a copy of Richard Brautigan’s Pleas… -
Spectators heading toward Greenwood on June 1, 1921 / Courtesy of the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library Just published by the University of Oklahoma Press, The 1921 Tulsa Race Ma… -
When South African poet Ilse van Staden’s first poetry collection, Watervlerk, was published in 2003, it was heralded as one of the groundbreaking poetry works of the new millennium that st… -
Argentine writer Ariel Magnus is the author of well over a dozen books in different genres. His novel Chess with My Grandfather is forthcoming from Seagull Books. Three of his microfictio… -
Poet and fiction writer Gloria Susana Esquivel has been quickly positioned in the spotlight of recent Latin American literature. The University of Texas Press recently published Animals at…