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An Interview with José Eduardo Agualusa
By Paulo Polzonoff Jr.
José Eduardo Agualusa, 46, is a growing name in world literature. Born in Huambo, Angola, Agualusa has already been embraced across the Portuguese-speaking literary world—especially in Brazil and Portugal,…
Translated from Portuguese by Paulo Polzonoff Jr. & Anderson Tepper
A Practical Guide to Levitation
By José Eduardo Agualusa
I do not like parties. The idle chat, the smoke, the fatuous talk of drunks, I find them all tiresome.
Translated from Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Jungle Books
By Susan Harris
The New York Times follows our Lusophone lead with a profile of our Milton Hatoum and his fellow Brazilian Márcio Souza.
To Write is to Transmit
By Rohan Kamicheril
Patrick Kurp at Anecdotal Evidence has an illuminating piece on Primo Levi’s inclusion of Paul Celan’s Todesfuge in his anthology-as-biography The Need for Roots: A Personal Anthology. Levi…
Panel Discussion at the Americas Society
By Rohan Kamicheril
The Americas Society is hosting a panel discussion on Argentine Literature, Culture and Society on the 28th of September. Essayist Jorge Monteleone and literary critic Gabriela Nouzeilles (Princeton University),…
A Few Questions for Anna Moschovakis, Translator of “The Engagement”
By Chad W. Post
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 Fat Indian Girl
By Mia Couto
She reclined on her bed cylindrically, unable to move, filling the feathery fabric with fluff.
Translated from Portuguese by David Brookshaw
A Juicer
By Ewa Lipska
So many saints / that they obstruct the heavens.
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
The Smells of Evil
By Ewa Lipska
The secret agent of order.
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
A Splinter
By Ewa Lipska
I like you a twenty-year old poet writes to me.
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
Indiscretion
By Ewa Lipska
Had she busied herself in time
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
Colorful hearts and circles over a maroon striped background.
Textile Design with Horizontal Undulating Strips of Pearls with Alternating Offsetting Bundles of Pearls and Heart Shapes over a Background of Alternating Overlapping Scales. Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Accession, transferred from the Library. Public Domain.
Number One
By Ewa Lipska
Ewa Lipska pens an ode to love in a market-driven world.
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
The New Century
By Ewa Lipska
The new century came as no surprise.
Translated from Polish by Robin Davidson & Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska
Writers Gather in Finsbury Park
By Georgia de Chamberet
A blue and white striped tent, 30 white plastic chairs, a table covered in books supplied by Serpent’s Tail, Apis Books, Legend Press, 12 writers and a microphone: Welcome to the Story Tent at FinFest:…
An Author Questionnaire for “The Jewish Messiah”
By Arnon Grunberg
On the subject of “small cultural differences between the U.S. and Europe,” I'd like to say a few words about the author questionnaire.Before this summer I thought that questionnaires…
The Woman Who Stole the Rain
By Teolinda Gersão
I smiled to myself when I saw just where I had ended up, thanks to this lack of efficiency, a lack which the manager appeared to attribute to the workings of fate or chance.
Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa
Local Affairs
By Alexander Cuadros
Alexander Cuadros reports from Brazil's Festa Literária Internacional de Parati (FLIP).
Electric Africa
By DJ Spooky
Brian Eno once famously remarked that the problem with computers is that there isn't enough Africa in them.
Mark Binelli’s Recommendations for the Mystery Novel Aficionado
By Mark Binelli
Continuing with our discussion of Georges Simenon’s The Engagement, Mark Binelli responds to Chad Post’s earlier blog entry about the book and even recommends some of his own picks for fans…
Boris Akunin
By Rohan Kamicheril
I was delighted to see that Josh Spero at the Guardian’s Book Blog has written about the Russian writer Boris Akunin in a recent post. Akunin is a figure familiar to many English-language readers,…
Promising Stuff
By Georgia de Chamberet
The autumn leaves fell as the school year began when I was a child; now they stay on the trees longer as indian summers become the norm. In Britain around 120,000 new books are published every year, of…
La Paz Book Fair
By Arnon Grunberg
In the middle of the summer, I traveled to the capital of Bolivia, La Paz—where it was winter—for a literary festival. The festival was part of the La Paz Book Fair. Even La Paz has a book…
Young-ha Kim’s “Empire of Light”
By Rohan Kamicheril
Publishers Marketplace reports that WWB author Young-ha Kim's latest book, Empire of Light, was just picked up by Harcourt. The brief reads:“Young-ha Kim's EMPIRE OF LIGHT, Manhae Prize-winning…
Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
By Rohan Kamicheril
The Susan Sontag Foundation has just officially announced that it’s now open season for the 2008 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. The prize invites undergraduate students and graduate students…
Song of Seeing
By Manoel de Barros
Having lived many years in the scrub grass in the way of birds
Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey
Devotion
By Manoel de Barros
There was a high wall between our houses.
Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey
The Book of Wheeling
By João Melo
Today, for some unknown reason, I've decided to share with you certain indiscretions that even my wife is unaware of.
Translated from Portuguese by Clifford E. Landers
From “City in Crimson Cloak”
By Asli Erdogan
A huge army clad in black suddenly spreads over the horizon; it approaches at a gallop, full speed, and attacks just like that, without warning.
Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler
Comrade António and the Cuban Teachers
By Ondjaki
But Comrade António, don't you prefer to live in a free country?
Translated from Portuguese by Stephen Henighan
“The Engagement” as Genre-Bender? Chad Responds
By Chad W. Post
In today's installment of our discussion of Georges Simenon's Engagement, Chad Post addresses Mark Binelli's comments on whether the book really subverts the expectations of the genre—Editor's…