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Re-visioning the Mermaid Romance: Monique Roffey’s “The Mermaid of Black Conch”
Jalondra Davis discovers that in Monique Roffey’s “The Mermaid of Black Conch,” fishermen sing, women scheme, and mermaids shed their tails for sneakers.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“Like Fences in a Flat Land”: On Recent Returns to German Expressionist Lyric
Alexander Sorenson reviews new translations of the expressionist poetry of Georg Trakl and Georg Heym.
The “Peacewar” of Sanctions
Priya Satia approves of Nicholas Mulder’s “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.”
Children of the Surrealist Revolution
Robyn Jensen reviews Aleksandar Bošković and Ainsley Morse’s English translation of “The Fine Feats of the ‘Five Cockerels’ Gang” by Serbian surrealists Aleksandar Vučo and Dušan Matić.
On Baduy
Novelist Miguel Syjuco on the subversive concept of baduy in Philippine culture.
To Foreignize or to Domesticate: Notes After Leading a Translation Seminar
Robert Chandler addresses the contradictory pulls translators face as they work.
Remembering in Taipei and Forgetting in Fuzhou: On Zhuqing Li’s “Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War”
Tobie Meyer-Fong reviews Zhuqing Li’s “Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War.”
The Name of the World: On Else Lasker-Schüler’s “Three Prose Works”
Jared Joseph reviews the first English translation of Else Lasker-Schüler’s major prose works.
Askew from the Nation: Thinking About Home and Country with Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin
Abena Ampofoa Asare on the diasporic wanderings — and singular meeting — of James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe.
What Happened?: On Dimitar Bechev’s “Turkey Under Erdogan”
Kaya Genç assesses Dimitar Bechev’s indictment of Turkish democracy.
“This Should Not Be Repeated”: Civilian Devastation, from Syria to Ukraine
In this photoessay, Elle Kurancid and Fadi Al-Shami compare the current crisis in Ukraine to the last decade of war in Syria.
“Writers Are the Middlemen Between the Human Race and Immortality”: A Conversation with Yuri Andrukhovych
Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych speaks with Kate Tsurkan about his latest novel, “Radio Night.”
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