Fiction by Sakumi Tayama

The Hole in the Garden, Part III

“You expect me to believe you dug a hole just for the fun of it?"

Translated from Japanese by Mark Gibeau

Fiction by Sakumi Tayama

The Hole in the Garden, Part II

Did you know that your husband is cheating on you?

Translated from Japanese by Mark Gibeau

Fiction by Sakumi Tayama

The Hole in the Garden, Part I

“Asako, how do you like this dream?” she asked, not turning her head from the hole.

Translated from Japanese by Mark Gibeau

Fiction by Hye-Young Pyun

O. Cuniculi

What he’d mistaken for a white dog was staring at him with red eyes.

Translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell bilingual version

Nonfiction by Jo Kyung Ran

Necessary or True Happenstances: An Introduction to the Work of Hye Young-Pyun

A prominent Korean literary critic once said of Pyun that her stories presented “a risky path” in Korean literature.

Translated from Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl

Fiction by Zheng Xiaolou

The Festival of Ghosts

On the evening of the tenth day of the seventh lunar month, we “invited” all the ancestors to our home.

Translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping bilingual version

Nonfiction by Can Xue

About the Young Writer Zheng Xialou

Zheng Xiaolu, editor of a literary magazine, is only twenty-five years old. He was probably twenty-two when he wrote this story.

Translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

Poetry by Tomas Tranströmer

Sketch in October

It's a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold.

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

Living to Write: An Interview with Doménico Chiappe

Only time, the persistence of works in time, their readings after ten, fifty, or a thousand years will say if the edifice was constructed with strong, durable, or perishable materials.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Fiction by Doménico Chiappe

The Writer of Memories

I felt the arrogance with which one regards the dispossessed.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer bilingual version

Fiction by Blanca Riestra

The Night Sucks

The girl with a ponytail says: “Look at the sky,” and the other says, “The sky sucks.”

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

A Tiny Repeated Gesture: An Interview with Blanca Riestra

I would like to write as if I were in a passing car, with the radio on, which is one of the most delectable sensations I know.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Fiction by Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

Dos Manzanas

And try to imagine what we will never know for sure: what old grudge (since it did not stem from us) and what precise urgency are at the root of everything that is going to happen today

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer bilingual version

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

Contraband Forms: An Interview with Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

Cutting through the inane shrubbery means, first off, not writing books that aren’t necessary.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

A Region of the Spirit: An Interview with Carlos Franz

It is a well established fact that we know our own countries better from afar.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer bilingual version

Fiction by Carlos Franz

Spaniards Lost in America

He kept the body under the counter, right where he stored his medicinal herbs.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

The Delayed Arrival of the Writer: An Interview with Jorge Eduardo Benavides

I have realized that when a writer emigrates, it takes much longer for him to arrive as a writer than as a person.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Fiction by Jorge Eduardo Benavides

The Reckoning

That Presence—long feared—was once again in our midst.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Fiction by Juan Carlos Chirinos

Ride of the Valkyries

Now the president is gulping down a pair of tranquilizers with his whiskey.

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer

Nonfiction by Jonathan Blitzer

Our Man in Madrid: A New Series from Words without Borders

“Madrid es un pueblo,” people here are fond of saying, their tone of paternalism matched only by pride. It’s small, but it’s ours, is more or less the idea.

Interviews by Jonathan Blitzer

Beyond the Realms of Fiction: An Interview with Juan Carlos Chirinos

What began in 1997 as an academic “excursion” became a kind of immigration experience and now seems to have turned into an indisguisable exile

Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Blitzer