Articles tagged "Mystery"

Womb (Mag: Articles)

By Cok Sawitri | January 1, 2009

My name is Nagari. Thirty years of age. There is no need to explain; I understand. . . . That evening, after my bath, my hair still wet, I heard a pounding on the door of my rented room. Three men had…...

Translated from Indonesian by John H. McGlynn

Crystal-Study (Mag: Articles)

By István László G. | November 4, 2007

Your neckline, like a glacier among the ice-slopes of your skin, displays that it's cold under the surface. Often you look at me. I don't mind. A waning moon is your soul, the sickle thinning until…...

Translated from Hungarian by István Geher

A Few Questions for Anna Moschovakis, Translator of “The Engagement” (Dispatches)

By Chad Post | September 20, 2007

To add to the ongoing discussion about Georges Simenon's The Engagement, we asked translator Anna Moschovakis a couple of questions. Q: How did this project come about? A: I was lucky this time because…...

The Man Who Sold His Shadow (Mag: Articles)

By Kim Young-ha | October 21, 2005

Here's a question we all ask ourselves at least once when we're young: Where does that starlight come from? It's been there before I was born, and before my grandmother, and her grandmother…...

Translated from Korean by Dafna Zur

What’s New? (Mag: Articles)

By Dunya Mikhail | September 1, 2004

I saw a ghost pass in the mirror Someone whispered something in my ear I said a word, and left. Graves scattered with the mandrake seeds. A bleating sound entered the assembly. Gardens remained hanging.…...

Translated from Arabic by Elizabeth Ann Winslow

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