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"These poems are laden with grief, but also, to my ears, carry a tremendous love and hope, without which, surely, there could be no endurance," writes critic Mandana Chaffa. With members across ...

What particular translation challenges arose as you brought Layla Martínez’s Woodworm into English? Listen to Sophie Hughes ...

In this coming-of-age story, Jazmina Barrera uses embroidery as a central motif to delve into themes of depression, youth, and travel. The novel traces the intricate friendship of Mila, Citlali, and ...

Ghayath Almadhoun writes a transformative love poem as the beloved and the lover negotiate minefields and soldiers, Adorno, and a collapsing Tower of Babel. She said there is a word in the Arabic ...

Amanda Socorro Lacaba Echanis is a writer, researcher, and activist. Her book of collected writings Binhi ng Paglaya (Seeds of Liberation) was published by Gantala Press and the Free Amanda Echanis ...

From Drawn & Quarterly | Dog Days by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong | Graphic Novel | 212 pages | ISBN 9781770467866 | US$24.95 What the publisher says: “Yuna never ...

Is beauty a gift? Is the body itself? Beauty could be understood as a quality passed down from parent to child and thereby given or “gifted,” even if only in a passive sense, through genetic ...