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Me and the Stars

Still, I have reservations about signing with a Pisces agent.

The Story of a Notebook

By Sergio Chejfec

One is drawn toward handwritten manuscripts because, unlike more mediated forms of writing (whether produced by typewriters, word processors, or automatic transcription tools), they alone retain the signs of hesitation.

Translated from Spanish by Jeffrey Lawrence

Transcending the Human Viewpoint

By Madeleine Feeny

I allowed myself to be very playful and unafraid, and to try everything.

“Reality (Unfortunately?) Varies”: A Conversation Between Galina Rymbu and Ilya Danishevsky

By Galina Rymbu

“It seems to me—perhaps naively—that poetry has the ability to examine things in a maximally authentic way.”

Translated from Russian by Anne O. Fisher & Helena Kernan

Learning Late Letters

By Nguyễn Hoàng Quyên

The dead don’t let us go, I say to my friend Sirius, putting my father’s letters in a drawer.

Translated from Vietnamese by the author

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Özdamar’s Tongue

By Mariana Oliver

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Local Affairs

By Alexander Cuadros

Alexander Cuadros reports from Brazil's Festa Literária Internacional de Parati (FLIP).

An Interview with Hisham Matar

Nouri Gana talks to Hisham Mattar about poetry, beards, and his novel In the Country of Men.