For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols

For Djabbarova, the body functions as a palimpsest of symbols

When Hamid Ismailov answered my questions, he had just returned from a tour of the United States promoting his most recent book to appear in English, We Computers (Yale University Press, 2025), t...

Hur holds language in the highest esteem. Rightly so, for when we all turn to dust, poetry is our final imprint on the universe.

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...

Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language Dr Sarah Gear, School of Modern Language 6.00pm - Pay What You Can £6.00 / £4.00 Novelist Shahzoda Samarqandi and translat...

Corresponding with Boris Dralyuk is always a pleasure. He is one of those people whose thoughtfulness and genuine interest just make the world feel like a better place. Having read most of his transla...

Featuring Alda Merini, Bassam Yousuf, Carolina Brown, MARGENTO and Daniel Saldaña París in our AI-themed Feature

Reviewed by Kate Tsurkan Reading “The Eyes of Gaza” from Ukraine, I was reminded of how no war occurs in a vacuum — the fight for survival, freedom, and justice is never isolated, but part of a larg...

Anton Hur is a genuine literary force. As one of the most prolific translators of Korean literature, and an author, too, since the publication of Towards Eternity (HarperVia) in 2024, he has...

No matter how much I read, no matter how well I know the language, that language is constantly changing, and authors are creative.

A PIMs book discussion with Victoria Donovan, Uilleam Blacker and Volodymyr Kulikov

Avdotya Panaeva was born in 1820 and first began publishing her work in one of Russia’s premier literary magazines, Sovremennik, in 1846. The author of numerous short stories, novels, memoirs, as w…

2025 is going to be a big year for books written by immigrant authors hailing from the Soviet Union who now call North America home. Since 2021, I’ve kept a running list of books coming out from ou…

There are 41 shortlisted works across eight prizes

Kazakhstani [authors] are . . . trying to decide what story to tell the world about themselves.

Mahtab has translated herself into her mother, and she has translated the past to make it her own.