Interviews
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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, poetr... -
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, as... -
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 star... -
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 au... -
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 current... -
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 Germany, an... -
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 Contreras... -
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 Please... -
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 ste... -
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 t... -
Antoine Volodine (b. 1950) does not exist, not exactly. He is one of the authors and the self-titled spokesperson of postexoticism, a movement that comprises 49 authors to date, with a total prod... -
Photo © MacArthur Foundation I first collaborated with poet Natalie Diaz in 2017, when she wrote the introductory essay for a catalog I edited for Visualizing Language. This Pacific Standa... -
Portrait of Zisis D. Ainalis by Alexandros Karavas, pencil, 2018. Zisis D. Ainalis was born in Athens in 1982. A poet, translator, and essayist, his work has been translated into English,... -
Photo: Mayu Kanamori Australian novelist Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated to Australia when she was fourteen. She worked for many years as an editor at Lonely Plane... -
Robin Hemley, ceaseless traveler—or as he calls it, polygamist of place—is the author of fourteen books, former director of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa, and founder o... -
Isabel Fargo Cole grew up in New York City, received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1995, and has lived in Berlin ever since as a writer and translator. Her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig... -
paintings by taha khalil / acrylic on canvas / courtesy of the artist Over the past several weeks, we corresponded with the multifaceted Rojava writer Taha Khalil, as he worked both in Qamishlo, R... -
Photo by James M. Manyika Sarah Ladipo Manyika has lived a global story that mirrors that of the protagonists in her recently reissued novel, In Dependence. Ladipo Manyika grew up... -
Photo © Judy Laing Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese-born writer who moved to Scotland in her mid-twenties and now resides there, where she writes her critically acclaimed fiction in English. T... -
What recent book has captured your interest? I just started reading Ocean Vuong’s love letter to his mother, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. What poetry. With whatever Vuon... -
From the publication of Sur le Champ (1967) to De qui n’a pas de prix (2019), Annie Le Brun’s books invite us to confront an uncompromising thought process that pla... -
Photo by April Rocha Laila Lalami is a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. After earning a BA in English from Mohammed V University in Rabat, she mo... -
Photo: Erin Patrice O'Brien Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), which won the 2016 Vermont Book Award and was hailed in the... -
Fallenberg Photo © Cathy Raff Although Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) is arguably Israel’s most important playwright, his work is almost unknown in the English-speaking world. Jessica Cohen and...
