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In Praise of the Arab Editor
Nile Green discovers Ahmed El Shamsy’s “Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.”...
Translation
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....
“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.”...
Language for a New Landscape
Saikat Majumdar ponders whether the American creative writing model truly fits the needs of Indian students....
How to Read English in India
Akshya Saxena tells us why English in India is A Good Thing to Have....
The Political Ferment of Malayalam Literature
Aditya Narayan Sharma considers the legacy and growing global reach of Malayalam literature....
Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae
Helen Mackreath talks with Egyptian author and activist Yasmin El-Rifae about her new book, “Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution.”...
The Pursuit of Property: The Afterlife of an Armenian Charitable Complex in Istanbul
What happens when a prize piece of land in Istanbul is also connected to the Armenian community?...
Uncle Tall Tale: On “Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China”
A gathering of 23 public lectures by the Nobel Prize–winning Chinese storyteller....
“The Thin Lash of Silence”: On Monika Herceg’s “Initial Coordinates”
The first English translation of the spare, lyrical work of a major Croatian poet....
After the Mauerfall: On Ulrich Gutmair’s “The First Days of Berlin: The Sound of Change”
The fall of the Berlin Wall opened up a space of possibility for German musical culture....
Scenes from a Refugee Help Center
Erika Monahan on what she saw at a help station in Germany....
Zábrana Overheard
The first collection of poetry by Jan Zábrana in English translation is a lyrical palimpsest of texts and voices....
Feels Like Home: Two Chinese Poets on Love, Longing, and Distance
Anne Henochowicz looks at two recently translated books by Wang Yin and Yu Xiuhua....
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