“The letter, Sara, is only / a waiting that has learned to walk”

“What a lot of people don’t appreciate these days is that as recently as the first half of the last century, what they called literature was a very, very different thing to the thing we have now. A…

We had buried them all. There were five.

This book group meets hybrid and monthly, on site at Mechanics’ Institute and online via Zoom, to read and discuss contemporary works originally written in

The new Syria has not dismantled the old prison system.

The poet’s work is challenging—but in a way that illuminates our universe, from the atomic level to the cosmic

New poetry from Ghassan Zaqtan, Mariella Mehr's short prose, and a novel by Nelio Biedermann—plus some informative verse

As things stand, the field of psychiatry offers us no precise definition for such cases of fleeting madness as those experienced by Mohammed Shatta, though literature has preserved an account of the p...

The famously obscure poetry of JH Prynne glitters with aphorisms and jokes

Growing up near a burned cinema, a Kurdish poet in Syria learns to read the landscape for traces of a violent history

I met with Jen Calleja—author, musician and translator from German extraordinaire—at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where she was taking part in two events. In the first, she ap...

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

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Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng is the translator of Nguyễn Thanh Hiện’s Chronicles of a Village, first published by Penguin Southeast Asia in 2022 and reissued by Yale University Press in April 2024. Narrated …

As [Mersal's] recursive and often discontinuous writing attests, the drive toward progress tends to entail an imperfect erasure, whose traces might resurface—as if through a palimpsest—if only one car...

Alex Tan reviews the new chronology of poems from Lebanon's bard of war and exile, Wadih Saadeh, translated by Robin Moger.

Rehearsal      /     29. Haytham el Wardany Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger TO THE DEAD / TO THOSE YET UNBORN Is...

A Horse at the Door Wadih Saadeh A chronology of poems selected & translated by Robin Moger Tenement Press #16 978-1-917304-02-3 169pp...

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"وقال لي أثرُ نظري في كلّ شيء"النفّري، موقف "قد جاء وقتي"أثرٌ بعد عينمثل طفلٍ يلقَّن في نشأته الأولى "قُلْ: أنت" فيجيب "أنا"، قال الجنيد: "لا يكون الحبُّ بين اثنين حتى يخاطب أحدهما الآخر قائلًا: "يا أ...

The wooden bell that hangs in the dark is struck. Is struck. No one sees it but it is struck. No one is there and the bell is struck. It is struck on the front porch of the dream and in its shadowed c...