In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.

Maybe violence turns you on, maybe it doesn’t. Humiliation preens at either end.

Literary translators deserve recognition and compensation for their labor and creative work. While the royalties are typically low due to revenues being split between multiple parties, a publishing co...

Voilà cinquante ans, les Khmers rouges prenaient le pouvoir au Cambodge. La chercheuse Anne-Laure Porée étudie la façon dont ils déplacèrent le langage pour soutenir leur politique d’extermination.

They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?

Listen to an audio version of this essay here. An acquaintance of mine, a comedy writer, once admitted to feeling disappointed that she hadn’t won […]

An aimless young man finds unexpected guidance in his village's marsh in this surreal short story from Chinese writer Can Xue.

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The Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) has announced it will suspend all self-funded research and may “even close down,” weeks after its CEO Robert Chung was investigate…

The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.

Photo by John Lucas, courtesy of Graywolf Press Claudia Rankine was born in 1963, in Jamaica, and immigrated to the United States as a child. She attende­­d Williams College and received an M.F.A. in...