A blizzard lures us toward Poland, / bringing us almost to the border.

To leave the airport is to feel you've got off at the wrong stop.

Author’s Note: “The Pig” is an allegorical short story, but its scope is not so restricted as it may seem at first. It would be more correctly defined as a “civil” story,…

We see so much that is strange.

I'll be opposite you, opposite you, lying prone.

As part of our third annual Graphic Novels issue, we’ll be featuring blog posts on the art, inspiration, histories and technical details behind the most exciting graphic narratives out there. All…

This is going to be a great event. There are few greater novels and fewer still where the translator plays such an important role. The Quixote in Spanish, in all its stories and stories within stories,…

In her final post for the Ogawa book club, moderator Amber Qureshi talks about the third novella in The Diving Pool and the author's cinematic use of light and shadow in her writing. Thanks to all…

In the course of writing my book A Basket of Leaves, I looked for books that told the best stories I could find about each of the fifty-four countries in Africa. They included novels, short story collections,…

For all our translator-readers, the Vermont Studio Center has listed the fellowships available as part of its upcoming February 17 application deadline. For more details on the fellowships, application…

One of the issues I’ve always had in being bicultural—especially now that I call Colombia my home (although I’m in England at the moment)—is the dilemma of loving a country…and…

In May 1998 I opened the New Yorker to discover a review, by John Updike, of Péter Esterházy’s She Loves Me, which I’d published in my Hydra imprint in late 1997. The review…

The following event may be of interest to our readers in New York City:Please join us in celebrating the publication of BOMB #106, dedicated to Montevideo, Santiago & Buenos AiresReading & Launch…

If you’re reading 2666 yet not interested in the gossip columns on Roberto Bolaño, you may enjoy the thoughtful conversation going on about the book in this “bolaño-l”…

In her blog post on the titular story from Yoko Ogawa's collection of novellas, Amber Qureshi discusses the author's unique use of rhythm and imagery and posits some questions for discussion.…

Chad Post of Open Letter Books just announced the ten fiction and ten poetry finalists for the 2008 Best Translated Book of the Year award. The goal of the award is to help bring attention to great works…

This recently came in from Roger Sedarat at Queens College:The Queens College MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation hosts a translation conference from March 26-March 28, 2009, with…

Last month I attended the symposium “The Study of the Arab World in Western Universities,” sponsored by ALESCO, the Arab League Educational and Scientific Organization, and hosted by the Arabic…

In an essay that was originally featured in the companion booklet to her and Stephen Snyder’s discussion of The Diving Pool at the Idlewild bookstore in New York City, Allison Powell talks about…

Poet Jorie Graham once said, “It is the poet's dream to communicate. To say what we're really saying.” And if you think about how hard it is to truly come clean in your own sentence,…

In her second post for our Diving Pool-discussion, Amber Qureshi discusses “Pregnancy Diary,”one of the novellas from the book and poses questions for our readers. You can find links to previous…

Austin Woerner reports on the discussion between Stephen Snyder and Allison Powell at the Idlewild bookstore last Thursday, January 8, in New York City. You can find the video from the event at the Words…

In the second installment in our Diving Pool book club, Stephen Snyder, the translator of the book and of Ogawa’s Housekeeper and the Professor (forthcoming from Picador), speaks to Amber Qureshi…

If you missed the terrific discussion between Stephen Snyder and Allison Powell on Yoko Ogawa's The Diving Pool last week, you're in luck, because we're making a video available on YouTube.…

Amber Qureshi jumpstarts the discussion of Yoko Ogawa’s Diving Pool with an introduction to the author, her work and contemporary Japanese literature. Amber will be posting her impressions of The…

FLYP takes a look at the “Literature of Immigration” in its latest issue and features short interviews with the participants at the WWB- and Americas Society-sponsored event at the Americas…

This January, we kick off the year in book clubs with an online discussion of Yoko Ogawa’s Diving Pool. Ogawa is one of contemporary Japan’s most celebrated authors, and her collection of…

In working through my own ideas of how I approach texts to be translated, a persistent issue that may never be resolved is that of the author’s role. As much as I tell myself that I should have…

There is a myth that journalistic endeavors interfere with the true vocation of a novelist: writing novels. I find that the opposite is true. My journalistic excursions have, if anything, enhanced my…