In Every Issue
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Burggarten, Allee bei Schneelage, Österreich, Wien, 1. Bezirk. AS I ENTERED the Burggarten on a snowy evening, I noticed a life-size statue of a monk when a large midnight-blu... -
Borders have always been a big bone of contention for Italy as a geopolitical entity. For centuries, its territory was fragmented, subdivided into city-states, duchies, seigneuries, run by local and f... -
Ling Ma Severance Farrar, Straus and Giroux Severance is a zombie apocalypse tale, a workplace comedy, and a classic coming-of-age story al... -
In the world of translation, especially as a translator of color myself, I find it important to read both translations and writings that are about various languages (including emotions), about acknowl... -
Elisabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017) / Courtesy of IMDB “When Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale appeared in 1986, readers regarded it as interesting science... -
Leonid Pasternak, Boris beside the Baltic at Mereküla (1910), oil on canvas In August 2021 University of Oklahoma alumnus Ron K. Jones donated a letter that he had received in 195... -
Photo Courtesy of Stanfords, 7 Mercer Walk, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9FA AS A GENERAL RULE rule, I’m happiest in the countryside. The noise, the crush, the speed of cities,... -
Peter Stamm The Sweet Indifference of the World Trans. Michael Hofman Other Press “PLEASE COME TO Skogskyrkogården tomorro... -
THE NOVELISTS Pat Barker and Douglas Stuart were both born into poverty, victims of the de-industrialization that swept like a wrecking ball through the British Isles during the secon... -
IF YOU SEE this city for the first time, it may seem as if it has just sprung to life overnight, such is its chaotic charm; it sits atop an elevated earth at three thousand meters ab... -
THERE ARE SOME moments in life when, upon entering a room, you realize you have stumbled upon that disturbing border where passion rubs up against obsession. In Baku, Azerbaijan, tha... -
I’VE BEEN THINKING a lot about how much of my own writing resembles “correspondences,” as my friend calls it, whether being conversations with visual artists such as Agnes Martin or E... -
View from the poet’s roof, Tumbalá, Chiapas / Photo by Carol Rose Little TO VIST THE Ch’ol poet Juana Peñate Montejo’s house in Chiapas, Mexico, requires several flights, at l... -
Hwang Sok-yong The Prisoner: A Memoir Trans. Sora Kim-Russell & Anton Hur Verso, 2021 Written by renowned Korean author and famous democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong,... -
Manchester Cathedral, England “THE CITY CENTRE was at once beautiful and scary. . . . The infrastructure alone—of brick and stone—was forbidding. The skyline—dotted by conical... -
Evelyne Axell: Body Double, exhibition views, Muzeum Susch. Photo: Courtesy Muzeum Susch / Art Stations Foundation CH IT IS MY BIRTHDAY; I am seventy-one. I am celebrating wit... -
Kwon Yeo-sun Lemon Trans. Janet Hong Other Press LEMON BEGINS LIKE many crime dramas: someone’s been murdered and the police are interrogating a s... -
I THINK I WILL FOREVER be just a little bit in love with young adult (YA) literature, no matter how old I get. While I’m not terribly discriminatory about genres, I do have steadfast... -
THE FACT THAT Mehrnaz Shirazi Adl’s story “Anahita” has made it to English-language readers is, in itself, a bit of a miracle. Due to wide-reaching sanctions on Iran, here in the US... -
In the children’s market, very little is translated into English from languages beyond western Europe, and until very recently Korean children’s books, for all their vibrancy and stunning artwork,... -
“African Renaissance Monument” by pennstatenews is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 LIKE A PILLOW that has burst its seams, Dakar overflows with an excess of life. The resultant... -
IT WAS IN THE BATHROOMS of the Sanborns restaurant, near what is today the Somos Voces (We are voices) bookstore, where Adonis García, the hustler-protagonist of Luis Zapata’s now-cl... -
THE LATEST BOOK by environmental writer Richard Heinberg finds him working with familiar material but with a new and insightful twist. In Power (New Society, 2021), Heinberg... -
Installation View at Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA, 2016 Wang Xiaosong’s essay unpacks the design philosophy of contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s major works. What is notable... -
Photo © Keiko Onoda BIRDS CHIRP AND MIGRATE. Rivers flow. People die. Snow falls. Many people know about the Buddhist notion of reincarnation. None of these singular things is...
