Ted Plantos Memorial Award photo with judge John B. Lee, 2005. Tell us about your relationship to translation, specifically between Chinese and English translation. From a very young age, I felt that I did not quite belong, I became independent, sometimes a little wild. In middle school, I began writing martial arts . . .

Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness,…

Photo: The keys to our house that was destroyed in Northern Gaza. Courtesy of the author. When I was ten years old, I was studying at the Beach Elementary School in Gaza. My teacher, Rahma, asked us t...

Review of Lorraine Boissoneault’s Body Weather: Notes on Chronic Illness in the Anthropocene (Beacon Books, 2026) Living with disability, particularly disability that results from a chronic illness, c...

The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is doneby brewers, wine-makers, vinegar-makers,Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, dis-tilling, sign-painting, lime...

Editor’s note: The following text is an edited transcription of a longer conversation conducted over Zoom, available in full below. Joan Cambridge-Mayfield reads “Guava Season in Exxon Guyana’s Cash-G...

Editor’s note: The text here is an edited transcription of a larger conversation conducted over Zoom, which appears in full below. Waters reads her poem “—And Also Sex” (Volume 67, issue 2) from 11:40...

by G. Ziegel

Congratulations to Amanda Sarasien and Elton Uliana, winners of our annual Chametzky Prize for their translation of José Luís Peixoto’s “The Woman Who Dreamed”! This story appeared in our Summer 2025 ...

by G. Ziegel

by Shams Mazen Rajab

a creative nonfiction interview by Mathew Magro-Fry

Review of Corinne Demas’s novel Daughters (Little A, New York, 2025) Yes, you can go home again, but you might revert to the same person you were when you first decided to leave. Corinne Demas’s novel...

by G. Ziegel

His guests are still drinking, and the smoke from his meat fire rises, on this windless evening, straight up into the trees. – John Cheever, “O Youth and Beauty!” Are you filling your grill? Tis the s...

This is an edited transcription of a larger recorded conversation between Kelsi Vanada and Emilio Jurado Naón, available in full below. Vanada is the translator, and Naón the author, of the novel Agus...

Photo credit: Chukwunonso Nwanze. On a visit to Ellis Island, New York, in 2007. At the height of European immigration, twelve million people passed through this hall with a new country’s name waiting...

Describe the first time you translated from another language. Where were you? What sounds or smells or sights do you remember? Do you remember anything happening to you in that moment? In preschool I ...

In recent weeks, a wave of xenophobic and Afrophobic violence in South Africa has targeted Black and South Asian migrants in poor and working class communities, culminating in a call for them all to l...

A review of Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation, edited by Raouf Farrah and Suraya Dadoo. Pluto Press, 2026. During a 2025 residency in Lagos, I met with som...

by G. Ziegel

Photo by ProtoplasmaKid, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The 2026 FIFA World Cup was sold as a celebration of North American unity. Host governments promised growth, prestige and international visibilit...

HATFIELD — Author Jane Yolen, known for her prolific literary career, died at her home in Hatfield on Thursday, June 11, at the age of 87. At the time of her death, Yolen had published more than 450 b...

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One day recently, I sat down to teach my little sister, Marah, who is six years old. The lesson was about colors in English. But on the pages before us, I found that despite their names all the colors...

Some people, Mays concludes, do not actually want to end white supremacy; they want a better seat at its table (5). It is a striking, almost perverse way to begin. But it is also the book’s thesis in ...

The robe hangs from melike a dark green riverthat has traveledthrough iron gates,through winters of counting,through the long vocabulary of restriction. And now— see how the old cathedral lightcannot ...

There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.-Wallace Stevens, “Fabliau of Florida” Where the pelicans glide overheadAnd the whitecaps foam up like beer heads,There’s a cold one for you.Try a...

Recently, I joined a group of volunteers who write to immigrant detainees in Otay Mesa Detention Center. A quiet kind of connection that forms when I write to someone I may never meet—someone whose wo...

by Hassan Herzallah