A review of a fantastic essay collection by award-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri about her increasingly important work as a literary translator.

A quietly enchanted story of family, folklore, and the courage to recognise happiness before it passes you by.

The Stanford University Libraries is pleased to present the shortlist for the twelfth William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (Saroyan Prize), a Prize intended to encourage new or emerging wri...

In September 2024 I posted that the City to Sea Bridge in Wellington is my favourite bit of infrastructure, largely because it is so generously proportioned that it feels like a part of the city ra…

Year 2102 “Hey. My name’s Michi. Nice to meetcha. So, why do I need to wear this? I thought the job was hacking.” Michi stared down her nose at the frilly white apron over the regulation navy-blue dre...

Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …

Sharni Wilson stunned us with her story "Only Crying" with its cerebral dialogue and evocative imagery. Motherhood

Sharni Wilson is an Aotearoa NZ writer and literary translator. Her work appeared in Landfall and WLT, among others.

This entirely subjective list of 50 highlights from 2024 include reviews of fiction, literature, poetry and non-fiction. Translations remained strong in this year’s list, including literature, poet…

A slow‐roasted never‐tasted Czech mystery in a paprika gravy, stewed with sauerkraut and heavy cream; the acute accents indicate long vowels, the caron (flying bird, inverted hat) at the end hishes wi...